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To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (142798)	6/14/2006 11:49:12 AM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (2) of 152472

if I recall correctly, QCOM has a cross licensing agreement with Texas Instruments, which allows QCOM to design and sell WCDMA chipsets. I am fairly sure that I have pointed out to you on a number of occassions that Qualcomm licenses DSP patents from TI. They are likely to have very few (if any) WCDMA patents. QCOM may also use additional IP from Nokia, in which case the termination of the QCOM-NOK license would cause some trouble. I dont think that there is any "may" about it. Qualcomm needs Nokia's WCDMA IP (along with Ericsson's, Motorola's, Siemens, and a variety of others). There wouldnt be much to negotiate with Nokia if this wasnt the case. Do you really think Nokia spent all those years on those standards committees and didnt manage to incorporate some of their own IP into the standard? Slacker

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