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To: carranza2 who wrote (53283)	7/6/2006 7:35:42 PM
From: quartersawyer	Read Replies (2) of 197011

Nokia's WCDMA license expires 4/07, and it is laying the groundwork for getting a better deal There is certainly a strategy. 2007 is unlikely to be random, and 1992 is significant to them in ways that clearly escape us, but probably relate to "dominance" in engineering output, i.e.patents, which expire in time. It is absurdly awkward that there is no accepted impartial academic mechanism to assign relative value to individual patents or families of patents. The industry is left with meaningless counting of obviously unequal "essential patents", and competitors get to poke at that soft spot of uncertainty in judging what is or isn't fair and reasonable. But expiration of patent rights makes sense, and Nokia might well be looking for reduced payments to Qualcomm if certain key patents expire during the life of a contract. Would you mind digging up that 2011 patent material? (Or was that with regard to key contracts?)

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