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To: Stock Farmer who wrote (75877)	3/27/2008 11:08:18 AM
From: bronx	Read Replies (1) of 197246

My understanding is that the '01 agreement included Q's use of GSM patents, so that's not changed. So, some Q patents have expired, will expire, or will be fully paid up --- that's different from '01, but everyone else whose licence runs to 2017 or whenever has that expiration built into their licence too. As has been pointed out on this thread, only NOK, because it is negotiating now instead of 2 years from now, thinks it deserves a discount. By the way, as Slacker has suggested and I agree, even if NOK and QCOM were offset in terms of their current patents (5% to NOK on each Q chip; 5% to Q on each NOK phone), NOK still owes a lot. Q's IP enables NOK to sell phones; NOK's enables Q to make chips. Completely fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory.

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