From the Neopoint prospectus filed 1/11/2000. I'm highlighting the excerpt covering IDC's 5 patents only, but there are also interesting excerpts in this prospectus regarding Philips and Ericsson.
For ease of refernce, here is a link to the USPTO site to get more information about the 5 IDC patents referenced in the Neopoint SEC filing:
uspto.gov
US5228056 07/13/1993
Synchronous spread-spectrum communications system and method
US5166951 11/24/1992
High capacity spread spectrum channel
US5093840 03/03/1992
Adaptive power control for a spread spectrum
transmitter
US5119375 06/02/1992
Subscriber RF telephone system for providing multiple speech and/or data signals simultaneously over either a single or a plurality of RF channels
US5179571 01/12/1993
Spread spectrum cellular handoff apparatus and method
Excerpt from QCOM-Neopoint licensing agreement:
"InterDigital's Excluded Patents" means those claims of each of InterDigital's existing and future patents which cover (i) overlay, (ii) interference cancellation, (iii) trellis, PASM and TASM coding/decoding and (iv) wireless
telephone debit card systems.
As of November 2, 1994, existing patents of InterDigital which have claims covering the subject matter of (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) (and are therefore InterDigital's Excluded Patents) are U.S. Patent Nos. 5,351,249; 4,849,974; 4,849,976; 5,359,182; 5,161,168; 5,333,191; 5,235,670; 5,072,308; 4,974,099; 4,953,197; 5,185,762; 5,228,053; 4,796,260 and their foreign counterparts.
"InterDigital's Five Patents" means U.S. Patent Nos. 5,228,056; 5,166,951; 5,093,840; 5,119,375; and 5,179,571 and any continuation, continuation-in-part and divisional application based on such patents, and any foreign counterparts of such patents, continuations,continuations-in-part or divisional applications.
"InterDigital Included Patents" means, with the exclusion of InterDigital's Excluded Patents, (i) every patent issued on or before March 7, 1995 (including utility models, but excluding design patents and design registrations) in the
world owned or licensable by InterDigital (including but not limited to InterDigital's Five Patents), and (ii) any subsequently issued patent (including utility models, but excluding design patents and design registrations) (whether
issued to InterDigital or a third party) in the world owned or licensable by InterDigital which claims or discloses an invention contained in a patent application filed or acquired by InterDigital anytime prior to March 8, 1995
("Subsequently Issued InterDigital Patents"), and any counterparts (foreign or domestic) to any such Subsequently Issued InterDigital Patents whenever such counterparts are applied for, and (iii) any continuation, continuation-in-part or divisional application based on any patent falling within (i) or (ii) above, whether such continuation, continuation-in-part or divisional application is filed during or after March 8, 1995. In the event of an acquisition of InterDigital by a third party, InterDigital Included Patents shall not be construed to cover any patents or patent applications owned by such third party
prior to the acquisition of InterDigital.
"InterDigital's Patents" means (i) with respect to those Licensed Products Sold by LICENSEE which incorporate CDMA ASICs purchased from QUALCOMM, the InterDigital Included Patents and (ii) with respect to those Licensed Products
Sold by LICENSEE which do not incorporate CDMA ASICs purchased from QUALCOMM, InterDigital's Five Patents.
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