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At 10:29 PM 1/22/98 GMT, you wrote: >The problem with the patent system is that it allows companies like Lucent >Technologies to dust off their 8000+ patent portfolio and start suing >companies >for infringement on patents which are almost 20 years old. (This is not >speculation, they are actually doing this.) But that is another topic >entirely... Why is this a "problem"? That is the law. You have to pick a time limit. If someone violates your patent on the last day of the legal term, is that any less a violation than to have done it the day after you filed? When patents are violated, it is usually because of ignorance of the laws and existing patents. But that doesn't make the patent process invalid. Rick Collins Rick Collins Email: redsp@writeme.com re:DSP, A Signal Processing Solutions Company P.O. Box 1253 Warrenton, VA 20188-1253 540-349-9606 Web Page: http://www.angelfire.com/biz/redsp/