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California Intellectual Property-Rights Firm Merges with Nevada Company.

By Adam Eventov, The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 24--A Temecula intellectual property-rights business is merging with a Nevada company in an $18 million deal.

Drayton Richdale Corp. of Nevada, a publicly traded holding company, is acquiring Matlink Inc. of Temecula. The move is a way for Matlink to go public and pursue licensing agreements for one of its computer patents.

Matlink claims it owns the patent to a computerized inventory-control system that uses stock-keeping units, or SKUs, to trac

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