[sv-ac] Forwarded message from 0-In CTO


Subject: [sv-ac] Forwarded message from 0-In CTO
From: Tom Anderson (tla@0-in.com)
Date: Mon Sep 16 2002 - 13:40:29 PDT


Committee Members,

In July, Richard Ho disclosed to you that 0-In had been granted U.S.
Patent
6,175,946 B1 which may apply to topics being discussed by the Committee,
and
that 0-In was pursuing additional patent protection. I have included his
original message below.

Prior to issuance of U.S. Patent 6,175,946 B1, 0-In filed a continuation
of
the patent application. The continuation contains additional patent
claims
which may be relevant to the subject matter under consideration by the
Committee. In the interest of full disclosure, I am attaching a Word
document containing the current claims of the continuation application.
Note that these claims have not yet issued and are subject to change.

We are making this disclosure to ensure that the Committee is aware of
all
patent claims that 0-In has obtained or is pursuing and that are
relevant to
the Committee's work.

Curt Widdoes
Chairman and CTO
0-In Design Automation
408-487-3645

  -----Original Message-----
  From: owner-assertion@eda.org [mailto:owner-assertion@eda.org] On
Behalf
  Of Richard Ho
  Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 11:49 AM
  To: sv-ac@eda.org; assertion@eda.org
  Cc: 'Richard Ho'
  Subject: Patent Disclosure Relating to Assertions Work

  Hello Committee Members,
  0-In is preparing our requirements for the Accellera System Verilog
  assertion committee and plan to actively participate in the
development
  of this standard. In the spirit of full disclosure, we want to
  disclose that 0-In Design Automation has been granted a patent in this
  field: U.S. Patent 6,175,946 B1, entitled "Method for Automatically
  Generating Checkers for Finding Functional Defects in a Description
  of a Circuit". This patent, and additional patent protection based
  on the same subject matter currently under consideration, may apply
  to topics being discussed by this committee.
  Regards,
  Richard
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
  Richard C. Ho (rho@0-in.com) Tel: 408-487-3647
  http://www.0-in.com Fax: 408-487-3651
  0-In Design Automation, Inc, 1784 Technology Drive, San Jose, CA 95110

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Curt Widdoes (cwiddoes@0-in.com); Ph: 408-487-3645; Fax: 408-487-3651;
0-In Design Automation, 1784 Technology Drive, San Jose, CA 95110
http://www.0-in.com


Accellera_Claims_Disclosure.doc



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