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To: KyrosL who wrote (65253)	1/30/2000 7:35:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

For patents which were in force on the date of the amendment, the patent period will be for whichever is longer, the 17 year period (from date of grant), or the 20 year period (from date of filing). uspto.gov That may give Qualcomm a little longer, it appears that the first CDMA patent may have been issued on 2/13/90, so it would expire in 2007. Again, I say "may have been" because I don't understand the technology well enough to know what the patent covers.