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To: D.J.Smyth who wrote (8589)	4/12/2000 2:54:00 PM
From: Bux	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

No Darrell, you are wrong. Here a 'cut and paste' from the Dalglish website: Both Qualcomm and InterDigital have worked harder than anyone else worldwide to develop the CDMA technology. Several years ago, in litigation between Qualcomm and InterDigital, a patent court ruled in InterDigital's favor. Qualcomm agreed to pay InterDigital over $5 million and both companies cross licensed each other for second generation (2G) useage of certain of their patent properties. But, according to telecom tech investment expert Darrell Smith (aka "Corpgold" on some message boards), the agreement does not provide for Qualcomm's transfer of InterDigital's patented technology in third generation use. That would be a very significant opening for IDC in Qualcomm's CDMA market. Better pull out the smoke and mirrors! Bux

To: D.J.Smyth who wrote (8589)	4/13/2000 12:33:00 AM
From: Clarksterh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13582

Darrell et al - The following is the pertinent text from the latest IDC 10K on Qualcomm license for 3g. Our current license agreements with Nokia, Siemens and Qualcomm do include rights under certain of our patents to manufacture and sell products compliant with 3G standards, with some limitations. ... The Qualcomm license agreement excludes, among other things, any rights under our patents as regards TDMA standards, any rights under our patent applications filed after March 7, 1995, as well as patents relating to cellular overlay and interference cancellation. Based on these limitations, neither the Siemens nor the Qualcomm agreement provides rights under all the ITC patents which we believed to be essential to 3G, or all of the inventions which we believe will be essential and which are contained in pending patent applications. The Qualcomm license agreement grants Qualcomm the paid-up right to grant sublicenses under certain of our patents to Qualcomm's customers. As for subject to their limitations would not apply to current assymetric data formats or all inclusive fdd spreads. What does this mean? FDD is very very old, as is asymetric data, so you must mean something more? Do you know the pertinent patents? (Still looking for that essential IDC IPR - said wryly, not rudely) Clark