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To: Frank Byers who wrote (50)6/6/1997 7:54:00 AM
From: Leo Francis   of 738
 
Pretty definitive response from QCOM:

SAN DIEGO, June 6 (Reuter) - Qualcomm Inc said early Friday
that the latest in a stringe of patent infringement lawsuits
filed against it by Motorola Inc is groundless and an attempt to
bully it into renegotiating a contract and royalty arrangement.
Qualcomm, a digital wireless company, said the patents cited
in the lawsuit are not specific to any of its "code division
multiple access" products.
"Motorola's filings appear to be an attempt to bully
Qualcomm into renegotiating a long-standing contract and royalty
arrangement despite the high value Motorola receives from our
CDMA patents," Qualcomm Senior Vice President and General
Counsel Steve Altman said in a statement.
"Despite Motorola's frequent disparagement of Qualcomm's
conduct, Qualcomm and its employees have always acted ethically
and responsibly towards Motorola."
On Thursday, Motorola said that although the two companies
had signed cross-license agreements in 1990 that grant Qualcomm
a royalty-bearing license to use some of Motorola's patents, the
patents that are targeted by this latest lawsuit are not
licensed to Qualcomm.
Motorola's new complaint contends that Qualcomm's wireless
phone products infringe four of Motorola's patents, three of
which are the same patents that were the subject of Qualcomm's
counter-complaint against Motorola filed in March, Qualcomm
said. Motorola filed a patent infringement suit against Qualcomm
in March over its wireless Q phone.
"We find it telling that Motorola only now claims that
Qualcomm's CDMA phones infringe Motorola's patents," Altman
said. "Qualcomm has alleged in the earlier cases that Motorola
is attempting to prevent Qualcomm from expanding its share of
the wireless phone market at a time when Motorola has no CDMA
product offering with which to compete."
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