Rob Mains Quotations

Any litigation settlement is incremental good news for a company that has a lot of litigation outstanding. In the scheme of everything going on at Tenet, this is not a particularly major issue.

The biggest one out there is the federal one. I wouldn't glean anything from what negotiations with the state attorney general could mean relative to settlement with the DOJ (Department of Justice).

The biggest one out there is the federal one.

I agree it's a definitive risk and I can attest to the intellectual prowess. With respect to protecting IP, that's a hard problem. We've had people come here, learn things, and take that back with them. One thing that says, very simplistically, is that you need to patent your ideas and enforce the patents that are part of your industry or company. Beyond that, one mechanism would be to look for partnering firms in China, as opposed to just putting up barriers. In some ways you look at the barriers as almost trade policies back early in the twentieth century. Perhaps we need to think of something a bit different there.

As we move to 45 nanometers, it's not just the ICs that are hard to design, but it's also harder to design and build the tools that are used to design the ICs.