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To: Gus who wrote (3796)	2/9/2000 7:05:00 PM
From: w molloy	Read Replies (1) of 5195

GUS SAID - And if you drill down at least 3 levels from any of the 5 patents covered by the IDC-QCOM cross-licensing agreeement, you will find more sophisticated spread spectrum system and component patents from various companies dating back to the sixties. W SAID- ....would equally apply to IDC would it not? GUS SAID- Exactly. Nokia is also a major proponent of the 3g Patent Platform. ==================================================================== Gus - let me post your original post again - you seem to have forgotten it. Message 12813679 provoked by Qualcommers who can not tolerate the notion that CMDA rests on the foundation of spread spectrum technology that has been around since the 1940s and 1950s -- public domain foundations, in other words -- because then that would mean that there are alternative paths that cast serious doubts about QCOM's ability to impose its royalty regime on the rest of the industry while it only has 10% of the global market. Question 1. You assert that prior art casts serious doubts on QCOM royalties. Why do you think serious doubts wouldn't equally apply to IDC? Question 2. You assert that QCOMS royalties come from 10% of the global market. Others on this thread assert that IDC gas 12% of the remaining 90%. Comparing IDC and QCOM royalty figures IDC : for the three month period ended September 30, 1999 includes $3.4 million in new licenses, $4.0 million related to development efforts for Nokia and Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd. ("Samsung"), and $2.9 million in recurring royalties. QCOM : revenues for the first quarter of fiscal 2000 were $178 million how do you account for the disparity?

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