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To: mightylakers who wrote (6939)	2/4/2001 8:16:47 AM
From: limtex	Read Replies (1) of 197218

ml - presumably if NOK has as she says already entered into contracts to supply infrastructure for 3G/W-CDMA they will at some stage need to consider actually paying royalties to all the numerous patent holders involved? I mean at some stage doesn't all the talking about the reasonableness of the royalties have to stop and NOK get their check book out and start paying? The game is clear ie to keep on saying that there are several companies that have applicable patents and that Q is just one of them so Q shouldn't expect to get anything very much out of the 3G patents and it will have to share a nevertheless reduced oveall royalty with several other patent holders. Sounds very fair to me....translated isn't it this:- Q, you have something we desperately need because without it we have to pay you and therefore you are the master and we, the servant. Thats not what we have in mind and despite our and the best effort of the European Union we can't get rid of your IPR here so we've got a new idea. We claim that there are a whole bunch of us who have these patents and each piece, even the smallest piece of the IPR for W-CDMA is just as important as the biggest piece ( sort of communism for technology) so you have to share what there is sort of equally with even the smallest IPR holder. Now bye the way there are so many of these IPR holders and eaxh is going to get so little that the best thing for everytone is that the overall royalty rate on W-CDMA be reduced to something fairly meaningless. Then the whole issue more or less goes away becuase the amounts of royalty per IPR holder become de-minimis. Oh yes well the royalty rate for GSM was a bit higher than the massive royalty rate that Qualcomm charges but that was different..... Best regards, L

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