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To: puzzlecraft who wrote (31832)6/7/1999 8:58:00 AM
From: quidditch  Read Replies (2) of 152472
 
John and Clark: re. IPR and questions: Clark's notes and recollection are the same as mine, and the thread had a bit of discussion about this point at the time of the CC. Q!'s position on IPR is highly favorable in the IP context, but also somewhat unusual, I believe. Two questions would be whether: 1) the statutory expiration of essential patents can be extended/ignored by virtue of continuous refinements at the margin of the technological specs. of the technology or with respect to specific applications of the technology for wireless features and 2) on a royalty basis, whether licensing, let's say, a peripheral Q! patent on some feature of CDMA should entitle Q! to the same royalties as license of the essential CDMA patents. I suppose of customers sign these license agreements, they would be bound, at least as to the second point.

Maybe someone with some IPR background can give us some flavor.

Regards and, hopefully, congratulations. Steven
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