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To: 100cfm who wrote (2450)	10/18/1999 9:00:00 AM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 13582

Regarding QCOM proprietary technology in WCDMA, earlier this year QCOM told the Europeans who were considering WCDMA as the ONLY 3G standard that any attempt to adopt a standard that rendered existing CDMA obsolete through incompatibility would be challenged. The grounds for challenging WCDMA, according to QCOM, were that it made use of certain Q patents. QCOM also indicated at the time that its CDMA2000 should be accepted as the standard for 3G because it was compatible with CDMA as well as GSM. It's not clear to me, now that CDMA2000 is a recognized standard (but not exclusive of WCDMA), whether QCOM will ask for and receive WCDMA royalties. It seems that the Q strategy is to "encourage" everyone to adopt CDMA2000, for obvious reasons. I also believe that if it came to a patent lawsuit on certain features of WCDMA, QCOM would stand the best chance of prevailing.