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To: Dennis Roth who wrote (12728)	6/21/2000 2:01:00 PM
From: Keith Feral	Respond to of 13582

No wonder why no Korea and Japan decided to concentrate their resources on CDMA rather than GSM. 29% is a pretty steep licensing fee.

To: Dennis Roth who wrote (12728)	6/21/2000 2:03:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 13582

lol! the end is near..................eom.

To: Dennis Roth who wrote (12728)	6/21/2000 3:01:00 PM
From: Kayaker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13582

The company's partners hope to cap future technology royalty payments at 5% of product costs. Currently, royalties account for as much as 29% of mobile system costs. Another lame attempt by those without significant DS-CDMA IPRs to avoid paying QCOM, unless of course, they were thinking the entire 5% would go to QCOM. Steve Altman, head of QCOM's licensing division had some comments about these "patent pools" a while back. "Many industry groups and companies have actually come to us and asked us to join -- I actually received a number of questions about this yesterday -- what they call a "patent pool". And the concept there was, "Hey, let's take everybody's patents, through them into a pool, agree to charge a maximum royalty, and then we'll share that in some predetermined fashion." And of course, everybody that doesn't have essential patents wants to join that pool so that they can gain access to the companies with the strong patent positions. We've had no interest in joining that patent pool and we'll continue with our existing bilateral license negotiations." Message 12931020 Yaker