Gregg:
As we speak, the Q has a grand total of 222 US Patents. Ericy has a total of 1685 US Patents. Remember that class I brought up? Class 455, subclasses 439-444 are for handoff. The Q has a total of 8 patents. Although I didn't read too closely, US Patent Nos 5,101,501 and 5,267,261 deal with "soft handoff" and were issued in March of 92 and Nov of 93 respectively. Ericy patent no 5,613,217 issued in March of 1997 and 5,392,453 issued in Feb of 1995 looked interesting for Ericy.
I have never declared myself an expert on CDMA or any type of air interface nor have I on patent licensing. With respect to the latter, I know very little about it. About CDMA, I took two classes in college on Wireless communciations and we spent some time on the subject and also a class on Digital Signal Processing.
I am arguing that QC's patent portfolio includes IPR for the basic architecture of "internal combustion" and additionally encompasses a myriad of subsystems that are all integral to the overall system.
That is interesting, however technology stands still for no firm.
While you could argue that this gives me sufficient agenda to disseminate hype and falsehood
I have never stated that you are hyping the Q, nor will I. I do believe that you have gotten an opinion. One point is that the people on this thread think that the Q has a completely unbeatable IPR and constantly cite the opinion. And your response was that
we are very comfortable that such a preponderance of the core aspects of ERICY's W-CDMA involve QC IPR that it will be virtually impossible for QC's patents to be circumvented.....As such, no competent law firm would ever render an absolute judgment on the validity of a single piece of IPR. But QC's overall patent position is such that, in a worse case scenario, the company could tie the deployment of W-CDMA up in court for years...while continuing to sell its IS-95 and wideband cdmaOne solutions unencumbered.
and I believe your response. By the way, did the firm also look at Ericy, NOkia, Mot, Lucent's patents?
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