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To: ihavenoidea who wrote (76773)	5/1/2008 12:06:24 PM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (2) of 196570

Depends on what is a draw. If its a draw; i see Nok not turning down a deal under the present license terms.And paying interest from April'07 thru 12/08. Like I said, I figure that the board would go ballistic if Q accepted the compromises that I would find acceptable. Your path does give the possibility of higher royalties but there are all kinds of pitfalls along the way. Q has been torpedoed again and again by crappy lawyering....if it happened in the initial WCDMA patent trials, they could have a catastrophic ruling somewhere along the way. Worse, if the most likely outcome occurred, Q and Nokia would both win their patent suits which would possibly shut down the vast majority of CDMA/WCDMA handset production around the world. Q would lose both chipsets and royalties in that situation. Yes, Nokia would be faced with huge losses as well, but argmageddon doesnt look any better just because you managed to nuke the other guy. Luckily, I think Q is a bit more amenable to compromise than most on this board. Witness their $100 million plus royalty cross-license offer to Broadcom last year. Slacker

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