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To: Dennis Roth who wrote (10056)	5/14/2000 3:32:00 PM
From: Bux	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13582

Re: IDC/QCOM agreement If 10Mhz spead systems take that long, will the IDC patents still have some time left? How long until their patents begin to run out, I wonder? I think W-CDMA uses a 4.096Mhz spread so QCOM DS-CDMA ASICS should be covered by the current agreement. Good point! I checked the five IDC patents that were licensed to Qualcomm and found they were all issued in 1992 and 1993. I think that means they fall under the 17 years from issue date expiration which means they will be expiring in 2009-2010. I would be surprised if Qualcomm needed to commercialize spreads greater than 10Mhz before that time. It looks like IDC might be out of luck. Bux