The Nokia QUALCOMM 2001 Licensing Agreement
psylent,
<< Just for clarification, is it your impression that the cross license only covered CDMA, WCDMA, and GSM patents that had been declared essential? >>
That is what I now infer rightly or wrongly, or at least that certain implementation patents are not covered by the agreement. That could, of course, not be the case. Liberal conjecture but none of us know.
<< I've assumed that even Nokia's implementation patents were covered in the 2001 agreement ... >>
I've never assumed that. I'm generally rather conservative in making assumptions.
I would have, however, assumed that Nokia would have been covered under the terms of the agreement for any essential GSM patents that QUALCOMM might at some time declare. So much for that assumption. <g>
I only know what I know, but don't even know some things I sometimes think I know. <ggg>
<< On the other hand, Qualcomm, as you say, has not asserted any patents covered under the agreement. >>
Neither has asserted essential patents covered by the agreement. Nokia never asserted any patents until May and that was, of course, after the agreement expiration.
Cheers,
- Eric - |
