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To: scratchmyback who wrote (143285)	7/4/2006 4:37:29 PM
From: samim anbarcioglu	Read Replies (2) of 152472

These and related patents were actually granted in the early 1990s. Normally, you would start the clock for a 16 year count at that time, according to patent laws, but the company was actually unable to receive any benefit of their patents due to litigation against it. So, it is said that in cases such as that, the clock actually is reset when the company is able to reap benefit. I am not in the law business, so I can't tell without doing a lot of research when Q's patents will expire, but they have built a formidable expertise in WCDMA technology, which is incidentally the same spread spectrum signal technology on a 5 MHz frequency band as regular IS-95 CDMA, which works on a 1.25 MHz (or so)frequency band. I think even MOT just buys WCDMA chips from them now. In the business, it is considered a black art.

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