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To: Dave who wrote (92214)	1/21/2001 9:00:02 PM
From: Ingenious	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Dave: True. Good point regarding WCDMA patents. Many patents are obtained by manipulation of the language and semantics. However, misleading a patent examiner is a great way to invoke inequitable conduct, patent invalidity etc (ie fraud on the patent office). We can only hope every WCDMA patent was intended to defraud the patent office and Examiners. Of course, my quick survey was just a note that WCDMA has not really taken hold of a large amount of IPR. Dave wrote: One other thing, igenuous. Just because we might call it "WCDMA", doesn't mean in the writeup they will refer to it as that. Some applicants purposivefully become their own lexicographer in order to prevent others from searching for the patent or even to confuse examiners....