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Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 17:40:43 -0800
From: harmon@jupiter (Gary Harmon)
To: giate, roberts, mooring.
In your mailbox is an update of the listing of our .S. patent filings
the curcent number, including civisionals and continuations, iS 28 separate
applications. Of these, 3 have issued, another 3 have been’ allowed and 1
still in draft form.” The balance, 31, are cuerently pending at the PTO.
The 37 applications actually filed contain a total of Tle claims, 112 of
which are independent elaine:
Of interest, Rambus has spent approximately $540,009 to date on patent
legal costs. This as about S14K per application. Since we have not yet,
fed in many foreign jurisdictions. this seems high to me, In my
experience, S10K was a good rule of thumb fora U.S. patent. We have a
long way to go on many of our applications; it Looks like we'll be spending
Closer to 520K per patent by the time they issue. Foreign filing will of
course add (considerably) to this cost.
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