IMHO the ring oscillator is an important/necessary piece of the 336. If you don't have one on board, you do not infringe. Even if you do, you need the second clock to infringe. That is the way it has always been. Why do you think something has changed?

Remember early on that there was a certain speed beyond which a microprocessor necessarily must be infringing. I forget what that speed was, but that was the clear sign of infringement of the 336. You just can't achieve those kinds of speeds w/o a ring oscillator and the second clock. All IMHO

Opty