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To: Clarksterh who wrote (53292)	7/6/2006 8:41:54 PM
From: Brihack	Read Replies (1) of 197015

Clark, Thanks for your input on patent life and the issue of the cumulative royalty rates for CDMA and Q's negotiated rate of approximately 4-5% versus many smaller amounts to various piecemeal companies X, Y & Z. On this latter issue, it seems to me that a large benefit of Qualcomm's licensing program is the pass-thru rights that a licensee obtains from Qualcomm (and its substantial list of licensees). On a different tangent, do you think that Qualcomm subsequently filed its fundamental CDMA patents (such as soft-handoff, power control, rake receiver, etc.) in any modified form for application to a wideband usage such as the eventual WCDMA standard? Or, as I suspect, the fundamental nature of these patents is the same whether applied in a narrowband or wideband context. Bri

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