QUALCOMM US Patent 5,452,104
Ron,
Good work. Thanks. You are almost certainly correct (proving that you and I aren't the only nutballs capable of making typos <g>), and it requires commas in a search of the ETSI essential IPR database. That would make this ...
13)¹ 5452104 9/19/95 Adaptive Block Size Image Compression Method
and System [2006-04-25 3GPP]
The declaration of that 1995 patent was submitted in conjunction with 3GPP Releases 6 & 7 as an ETSI deliverable.
I don't know if it has any significance or not but it strikes me as curious that while QUALCOMM has gone back and added GSM and GPRS to several patent declarations ...
On 24 SEPTEMBER 2004, Qualcomm Inc. appended their information statement and licensing declaration of essential IPRs of 4 June 2004, for project 3GPP, by adding the projects GSM and GPRS to their above-mentioned declaration.
... only two of the 15 patents they are litigating that I can find in the ETSI database -- and I still can't find 4 -- are declared as essential specifically to GSM, GPRS or GERAN as well as the 3GPP umbrella. To me, and since Paul Jacobs stated last November that they had no immediate plans to litigate the alleged infringing and alleged essential patents against Ericsson, NEC, Matsushita, or TI ...
Qualcomm Chief Executive Officer Paul Jacobs said his company has no immediate plans to further ratchet up the dispute by going after the other four companies that requested the investigation. "It's not in our current plans" to take legal action against any of the others, he said in an interview. "Qualcomm is not a company that traditionally initiates litigation."
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... this possibly begs the question of whether or not QUALCOMM is willing to license these patents on a FRAND basis (however vaguely FRAND is defined) in compliance with ETSI and 3GPP IP Policy and it possibly accounts for several of the statements Nokia's spokesperson Bill Plummer has made publicly or that Nokia has made in its 2 press releases commenting on QUALCOMM's initial 2 legal actions and the 3rd covering the recent Delaware Court of Chancery filing that asks the Chancellor's to ...
... abide by its written contractual obligations to international standards setting organizations to license intellectual property essential to GSM and UMTS technology standards on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms.
It would be interesting to know what 2 patents QUALCOOMM is seeking injunctive relief for alleged infringement in the UK and whether or not they are the 2 that are specifically tied to GERAN.
As I say, there may not be any significance to this, but it is curious to me.
Best,
- Eric - |
