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To: Ramsey Su who started this subject	5/8/2002 6:47:57 PM
From: foundation	Read Replies (2) of 196970

Fear and Loathing in the Patent Pool Playground ========== Thanks to Nokey and DoCoMo for shining a pale light on the 3GPP UMTS patent pool. Once a topic of considerable discussion, we've not recently weighed its ramifications. ========== FACT: There are 468 3GPP members, who all have a voice in Standard development. Many, though not all, contribute technical documents to Standard creation. QUESTION: If you were to poll the 468 members, how many would claim essential wCDMA IP? ANSWER: How many can raise their arm? ========== IP issues have changed for 3GPP since the inception of GSM, when there were relatively few players to split the pie. Nokey today addressed a profound and thorny issue - how can 3GPP get its Patent Pool in order? Nokey, it seems, will find little comfort with ERICY, and NTT (who manufactures nothing) is already selling its proprietary IP on the open market. What if you're one of the hundreds of smaller member companies facing the prospect of being shut out of the choice, select, reciprocal no-fee-IP deals traded amongst the big players - yet with intellectual contributions included (or at least arguably included) in the bloated, flatulent, political tome anointed Release 99? Care to litigate? The prospect that Nokey, as stated in its PR, is fraught with worry over the fate of "the little people" - its potential small competitors - is touching. <ggg> Beyond Nokey's counterfeit concern... beyond Nokey's insincere benevolence... Nokey is correctly concerned that conditions could evolve where the ownership and associated costs of the UMTS standard could be tied up in the courts in perpetuity. And carriers won't buy equipment under those conditions. Which is yet another reason for China to watch Europe with care. Could there be an advantage to one-stop IP shopping at Q? <g>

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