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To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (4705)	12/30/1999 8:17:00 PM
From: Clarksterh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

Art - In the settlement, each company cross licensed the patents to the other, but IDC was restricted in its use of those patents to broadband applications. I think you are confusing B-CDMA (the IDC WLL standard) with generic Broadband-CDMA. IDC was licensed to use certain Q! patents in its B-CDMA standard on a royalty bearing basis. They did not split the baby by bandwidth. One of the takers was Siemens, as I understand it, and this connection led to the development of the WCDMA standard, which would allow 3rd generation users of GSM to circumvent other CDMA patents. Siemans worked extensively with IDC on B-CDMA, but, so far as I know, very little on W-CDMA (BTW there is no unique W-CDMA standard. There are several fairly different standards and this is one of the key advantages of CDMA-2000.) Clark