10:21 PM ET 07/24/97 Gateway 2000 disputes Rightiming's Amiga rights NEW YORK, July 24 (Reuter) - Gateway 2000 Incsaid on Thursday it disputes Rightiming Electronics Corp's license to manufacture Amigas, their right to sell their license and any claims they have made with respect to this license and their apparent sale of all Amiga patents to Lotus Pacific Inc's subsidiary, Regent Electronics Corp. The assets and rights in dispute include the Commodore-Amiga patents, licenses, trademarks and copyrights to be registered and used in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao and the bordering countries between China and the former Soviet Union. In an earlier news development, Lotus Pacific said that Regent acquired the technology assets from Rightiming for $5 million and eight million shares of Regent's common stock. Richard Ho, a spokesperson for Rightiming, said that Rightiming acquired the Amiga technology rights to be used in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao in 1995 from the German computer retailer, Escom AG . Jim Taylor, a spokesperson for Gateway, said Gateway acquired the Amiga technology rights during Escom's bankruptcy in August 1996. Gateway, in a prepared statement, said it "owns all Amiga patents, copyrights and trademarks worldwide and it will continue to license Amiga technology to qualified companies." Gateway said further it "disputes any claims they (Rightiming)have made with respect to Amiga patents, copyrights, or trademarks." A Regent spokesperson, who declined to be identified, said if Gateway's claim to the technology rights was good, then both Regent and Gateway have equal claims to those technology rights. Gateway said it had no comment on any future actions it plans to take or on the Regent spokesperson's comments about both companies having equal claims to the technology rights.