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To: ehopper who wrote (88710)	12/2/2000 3:05:11 PM
From: slacker711	Respond to of 152472

With WCDMA you can get around alot of these, In the end QCT gets less for the "complete" package with WCDMA. What do you do if there are just two patents which you CANNOT get around? Answer...Either dont build W-CDMA or pay Qualcomm. There are no other options. Slacker

To: ehopper who wrote (88710)	12/2/2000 3:23:36 PM
From: Cooters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Ehop, Q does not license their patents based on the number you use, or your argument would have some validity. License one, license them all. Coots

To: ehopper who wrote (88710)	12/2/2000 4:02:16 PM
From: Kent Rattey	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

<The basic CDMA patent IS the same however QCT was clever in tieing alot of "support" function patents to CDMA2000 that do not apply to WCDMA> I believe if you follow the patent litigation between MOT, ERICY, NOK and NTT, you will find there are several patents they are trying to break. I believe it was 49 in Korea with MOT, where QCOM held in 46. In QCOM's press releases on patent litigation they provide the following: “QUALCOMM holds dozens of patents that are essential to the leading CDMA standards.” Here are two that are essential: "Spread Spectrum Multiple Access Communication System Using Satellite or Terrestrial Repeaters" "System and Method for Generating Signal Waveforms in a CDMA Cellular Telephone System" Kent