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To: peterk who wrote (72960)	1/2/2008 10:55:04 AM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (3) of 196878

Are you saying then that patents not covered in the Standards can be sold at whatever the Market will accept? Exactly. A patent holder can license (or refuse to license entirely) at any terms they wish UNLESS they have given up that right by participating in a standards organisation and agreeing to FRAND. This is what happened with the Brewster ruling over the H.264 video patents. Honestly, I dont think Qualcomm (or the industry) paid much attention to the non-essential patents until the last few years. Qualcomm's original submission of essential GSM patents covered a very wide range....but they later reduced that by withdrawing quite a few. It seems to me that the Broadcom lawsuits made them realize that the best situation is to have a range of essential and non-essential patents and to sue using both. The non-essential patents negate the FRAND requirement while the essential patents are impossible to work around. Slacker

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