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To: Clarksterh who wrote (8454)	4/8/2000 9:43:00 PM
From: A.L. Reagan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

Clark - no offense taken. Yes, finding them is the easy part. Posting a very partial list only demonstrates that "yeah, there's a bunch of stuff claimed by NOK and/or IDC that relates to W-CDMA, and these guys have been busy beavers at it recently," but not that there is essential IPR there. Evaluation is a toughy. Why patent attorneys get the big bucks, and certainly no one can expect a poster on this thread to exhaustively research the entire topic gratis.. I note that as is the case with your IDC correspondents, our esteemed fine Finnish friend Tero can not identify any specific items of NOK IPR essential to DS-CDMA, but relies on the "where there's smoke there must be fire theory." And there's no shortage of smoke. So the question remains, is it FUD or is it fire? Instead of the typical CC question about whether DS-CDMA requires Q's IPR, which has been satisfactorily beaten to death, inquiring minds want to know if Q can design DS ASIC's with its own and already licensed IPR w/o infringing any NOK/IDC claims. If the answer is an unequivocal "yes", end of story. If the answer is "not completely" then what do they have that we need? I do not recall this specific question having been asked and answered.