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Laurie Thomas

Vice President/General Manager Weekly Publications

September 26, 2002

Mr. Joseph Giardina

Mount Kisco, NY 10549

Dear Mr. Giardina:

It has come to our attention that you have copied and distributed content from The Patent Trader on your website, bcsd.freeservers.com without authorization. Specifically, your website includes an article headlined, "Teacher Takes Charge at West Patent Elementary," written by Rich Logis. This article originally was published September 19t^h in The Patent Trader. Your use of our copyrighted content infringes upon our intellectual property rights, and we must demand that you cease this practice immediately.

As you know, you have not received authorization to copy, edit, reproduce or distribute articles from The Patent Trader on your website. By posting The Patent Trader's content on your website without permission, you have violated our exclusive copyright rights to reproduce and distribute the content, as well as our trademark rights.

Accordingly, we demand that you immediately stop your practice of copying and distributing The Patent Trader's content and that you refrain from using The Patent Trader's intellectual property in the future without permission.

You are advised to remove the aforementioned article from your website immediately. If you fail to remove this content from your site, we will take whatever legal action we deem necessary to protect our intellectual property rights. This letter is without prejudice to our rights, all of which are expressly reserved.

Please contact me if you wish to discuss this matter further.

Laurie Thomas

Vice President/General Manager Weekly Publications