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To: carranza2 who wrote (9920)	4/17/2001 11:51:04 AM
From: Dennis Roth	Read Replies (1) of 196725

>> Can't be legal. But I'm no anti-trust expert. << I believe it is legal. I'm no lawyer either, but a patent is a legal monopoly. A patent holder can't be be forced grant a license if they don't want to and can charge what the market will bear. Also they can choose to cross license or not with whom ever they choose. The whole idea of a patent is to give the innovator a temporary legal monopoly to encourage and reward innovation. I'm sure there are exceptions such as innovations vital to national defense where a patent holder can be forced to license. I think that if what the GSM 'big five' did was a gross violation of anti-trust, legal action would have been taken by now. JMHO. - DPR

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