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To: Tom Hua who wrote (476)	5/30/1999 12:46:00 AM
From: jjs_ynot	Respond to of 2514

In addition, patents require hug sums of money to defend in the Court system with long drawn out proceedings and consuming time and big dollars. Creative Technologies sued several companies for stealing their soundblaster sound card technologies. After several years and many millions of dollars they were justified as correct but awarded no damages. The purloining companies were merely required to adjust their technologies to not infringe on the patent. By then the market share had been lost and the competitors had evolved the state of the art beyond the infringed capability. Patents are not a guarantee.

To: Tom Hua who wrote (476)	5/30/1999 6:42:00 PM
From: Mike M	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2514

...Fact is if you've got a few thousand dollars, you can file patents on anything and everything. I would say at least 99% of all patents are useless and bear no commercial value. You are starting to throw up red herrings Tom...First off you guys say there are no patents then, OK but the patents are useless...Not because you know anything but because...I guess because you want to respond with something. The bunch of you are throwing up plenty of objections but, I think you complain too much. Time will tell if there are too few or too many employees, if their patents have value etc... But that part about "99% of all patents have no commercial value"....Really, Tom...