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To: axial who wrote (5759)	10/31/1999 12:51:00 AM
From: Peter Ecclesine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Hi Jaskay, You asked about the revenues typically associated with IEEE and ITU. The RSA license for 802.11's Wireline Equivalent Privacy algorithm was reputed to be $250,000 per manufacturer for unlimited use. Many manufacturers paid even thought they felt that the algorithm had been published prior to RSA claiming it, and the matter could be successfully fought in court. Typical GSM licensing was reputed to be ~15% of revenues if the manufacturer has no IPR to trade(my sources are all on the Qualcomm discussion boards). The European manufacturers cross-licensed each other and have a low IPR cost. With respect to OFDM, I'm told basic research dates back to the 1950s, and in the 1960s several were experimenting with it. After the lawyers, who are engaged in evaluating prior art, get done, some value will be placed on the claims. petere