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To: Clarksterh who wrote (1195)	12/7/1999 4:25:00 PM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12231

Clark, Note on Qualcomm claim stakes - claim stakes have limited applicability for an infringement case against, for instance, W-CDMA How will Qualcomm be able to gain royalties on WCDMA without patent protection? By "limited applicability" for "claim stakes", are you saying that Qualcomm's patents do not cover WCDMA? Or is coverage somehow otherwise afforded? This is interesting in the context of whether Qualcomm will be able to collect on WCDMA, which most shareholders would like to believe.

To: Clarksterh who wrote (1195)	12/7/1999 6:16:00 PM
From: D.J.Smyth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12231

what is diss'ing? that's one of those new terms. anyway, I've heard from another engineering source that Lomp's patents tend to be too broad (a former boss of his actually). nevertheless, if you study the full broadband CDMA system (from their specs and diagrams) one concludes that Lomp is taking some of the elements from there and attempting to incorporate mobility (he obviously belives he suceeds, otherwise why bother applying for a patent). thus, I conclude his ultimate goal is to design a full system which incorporates both fixed and mobility into one anthology. will it sell? certainly, if you find someone to build it and buy it. they obviously have working models. Broadband CDMA works extremely well in a fixed environment (despite spectrum reuse arguments Q used against it). How will it work in a mobile environment? Lomp's whole tenure at IDC was an attempt, I think, to get IDC to move in this direction. the original broadband CDMA model differs quite a lot from the current working model. Several IDC engineers who now work at Qualcomm may not be up on the new developments at IDc since they left IDC. OT. In fact, one wireless magazine editor stated that Q's current CDMA system was partially made possible by a few defections from IDC (individuals from the original TDMA crew who saw more vision in Q's business plan). His comment, "AsÿI wrote earlier, several of theÿpatents currently held by IDC were originally won by Qualcomm CEO Irwin Jacobs and his team when they were at Linkabit.ÿ I did not state, as you inferred, that the IDC patents were secured by Qualcomm.ÿ I was simply noting that manyÿofÿtheÿengineers whoÿcreated the technology upon whichÿseveral of the IDC patentsÿare based now work for Qualcomm."