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To: Uncle Frank who wrote (35020)	11/18/2000 5:14:21 PM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh	Respond to of 54805

You might want to look a little harder. Qcom has defended their patents successfully in court. The implication, I presume, being that HGSI's patents and patents pending, since they are not technology in the classic sense and since one can imagine an argument being made for them being discoveries, not inventions, may not be enforceable or valid. Not to mention that I think that with QCOM a very strong case has been laid down that the QCOM IPR is the only way currently known to achieve the higher data rates and efficiencies which are almost unquestionably going to be required of future wireless. HGSI's patents, while potentially exciting, have no such clear and direct connection to a prospective value chain.