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To: slacker711 who wrote (75510)	3/15/2008 12:02:28 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) of 197227

An interesting semantics debate going on which I am following but with no opinion yet because I have not done the research and probably won't. But the debate requires clarification, I think, since it is important to others. What does 'fully paid up' mean, exactly? Until this is determined, seems like one set of folks is talking in Polish while the other set responds in Zulu. Does 'fully paid' up in the sense NOK seems to use it mean that the chip manufacturer has paid the requisite fees and the handset maker owes nothing more, patent exhaustion, more or less, or does it mean that the fees for the fundamental patents have been fully paid per contract, nothing more is owed, and therefore the license is about the terms for the following patents as the fundamental ones can be used for free?

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