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To: JPitcairn who wrote (22475)	5/10/2002 9:42:31 AM
From: Dennis Roth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 196978

How generous of Nokia to suggest a 5% total royalty cost on WCDMA. I think part the reason Nokia is floating the cap idea is that hey have grown to 35% of the handset market without ever having to pay any significant sums for IPR, unlike asian competitors. Now for the first time they are going to have to pay out more for IPR than they recieve and they don't like it. I don't see legally how manufactures can collude to fix IPR prices at 5% ASP. When this idea was first floated three years ago it was pointed out that the patent pool scheme could run afoul of U.S. anti-trust and EU competition laws. An industry trust to set and fix IPR prices could be illegal. 139