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To: Scumbria who wrote (77018)	3/22/1999 4:18:00 PM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 186894

Re: "I'm guessing that Compaq is not going to be suing AMD for Alpha patent violations." No probably not but than AMD won't be getting a Fab and successful product lines at dirt cheap prices either. EP

To: Scumbria who wrote (77018)	3/22/1999 4:27:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

<The remarkable similarities between the 21264 and K7 microarchitectures might help explain how K7 came up so quickly.> You can't be serious about this. "Similarities between 21264 and K7?" As I see it, the only thing they share is the EV6 bus. Tenchusatsu

To: Scumbria who wrote (77018)	3/22/1999 4:34:00 PM
From: L. Adam Latham	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria: Re: I'm guessing that Compaq is not going to be suing AMD for Alpha patent violations. Why not? If the K7 will compete against Compaq's Alpha designs, and possibly sell for less, why wouldn't Compaq protect their patents? I recall from one of my business classes that a company has to actively protect its trademarks or face a possible loss of the trademark. This is why you often hear about big companies "bullying" smaller ones by sending them letters demanding them to stop abusing a trademark. If the "bully" didn't send the letter, and ignored the infringement, then the smaller company has a better legal case at stealing the trademark. Does anyone know if this applies to patents as well? If Compaq doesn't object to AMD's patent violations, will this imply that Compaq doesn't care, and thus allow others to use the technology covered by the patent? Adam