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To: A.L. Reagan who wrote (72936)	5/31/2000 10:23:00 PM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (1) of 152472

re. your seven points. Not sure of course but I believe most of us have considered the ideas contained in you points. My problem is I'm not an IPR lawyer and hence just don't know what's possible. I don't know (for sure) that Q's CDMA is the heart (the sine qua non) of DS CDMA. However I've done enough reading to believe it to be. If that's true, then is there any legal requirement for your first point to be accurate? 1. Worst case gross royalty to QCOM is +/-5% while its fundamental patents are effective. What I'm getting at here is that in the simple CDMA2000 world charge the ~5%, but in the more complicated DS CDMA world have a more complicated rate structure. Let's say company X says their DS CDMA should result in XR royalties to X. Then Q says "Fine for you our royalties are QR". Now QR is determined such that QR - XR = NR where NR is the net royalty = ~5%. If this approach is: 1)legal, 2)publiclly stated and 3)supported by the strength of Q's IPR, then perhaps some of the current "maneuvering" would cease as it would be seen to have little merit. Now I'm aware that this approach is simple to the point of being simplistic, but why is Q required to charge the same to everyone? Fair? I would be prepared to argue that "under the circumstances" the above proposal is certainly just as fair as what I currently see occurring. As an aside am I the only one who always sees the acronym DS CDMA as BS CDMA. Hanging around... lurqer

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