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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (18351)	11/15/1998 6:02:00 PM
From: Ramus	of 152472

I just ran across something I find rather curious. While going through the ARIB(Association of Radio Industries and Businesses) proposal for W-CDMA... the Japanese version. On page 161 Annex 4 "Patent and Patent Pending List". Very interesting reading. This list is quote "...patents which are believed to be essential to the ARIB proposal". Goes on to state that these claims have not been verified etc etc. Shows Airtouch has some, that Nokia has 4 or 5 claims, Ntt and Ntt docomo, as well as a bunch of other Japanese companies have quite a few claims. Shows Qualcomm claims from pages 172 to 235...quite a bunch(lists patents in separate countries..I didn't know Qualcomm had patents in Vietnam!!). Now for the curious part.....THERE ARE NO CLAIMS LISTED FROM ERICSSON. Apparently, as of the 26th of June, 1998, Ericsson has given no notice to ARIB that it holds patents essential to the ARIB W-CDMA proposal. This is especially strange since the ARIB, UTRA and W-CDMA/NA proposals are not all that different. Ericsson has said in the press that they have all kinds of CDMA patents. They even claim they have patents essential to CDMA-2000. I have heard that they have yet to actually state which patents are essential to W-CDMA and CDMA-2000. Have they done this? Does anybody know? Have they informed ARIB of their patent claims? I already know what they've said in the press. Walt

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