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RE: FW: PatCom Report




At 10:17 AM 10/18/00 -0600, pat_thaler@agilent.com wrote:

>Jim,
>
>Also, "(country)" should be deleted. Many of us patent major patents in
>multiple contries. It would be a problem if someone provided a letter that
>assured licenses under their US patent and then asserted another patent
>against products distributed elswhere. I don't recall the letters that
>were submitted in the past limiting themselves to a specific country.

Pat-

My recollection is that most patent letters on issued patents refer only to 
the US Patent. Most of the boilerplate that I have ever seen on this does 
not assure license to "the US patent and foreign equivalents" or anything 
like that.

It should, of course.

Geoff