Yo Jon!
Yes, but some years Texas Instruments made more on Patent Licensing
than the rest of the business combined. We will just have to wait
to see if the other shoe drops.
RGDS
GARY
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On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Jon Crowcroft wrote:
In message
<200009211344(_dot_)JAA19359(_at_)astro(_dot_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu>, Keith
Moore typed:
>>OTOH, if I owned that patent, I'd put it to good use...
the normal corporate use of patents is to stop someone else charging
you royalties for something covered by their patent - for example,
cisco might need the NAT patent to stop someone charing them for fast
ipv6 technology:-)