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To: foundation who wrote (30900)	1/9/2003 7:01:13 AM
From: foundation	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 197636

3G Patent Platform starts today Marc van Impe Nordic Wireless Watch - January 9, 2003 at 09:44 GMT The 3G Patent Platform, which evaluates, certifies, and licenses patents that are technologically essential for the manufacture and operation of third generation (3G) mobile communication systems, starts its services officially from today January 9. 3G Patents is now accepting applications to undertake essentiality evaluations of patents that may be technologically essential. One of 3G Patents' key objectives is to identify, using an industry defined and accepted independent evaluation and certification process, and with a very high degree of credibility within the industry, those patents that are truly technologically essential for the manufacture of 3G products such as terminals and base stations. The evaluation and certification process will be conducted by a network of approved patent law firms and approved patent attorneys from Europe, North America, Japan, South Korea and China. Thus, licensees may take patent licenses in the knowledge that the patents are indeed technologically essential. The outcome of an essentiality evaluation, to be undertaken by an Evaluation Panel comprising three patent attorneys, will be based on technological and legal considerations. nordicwirelesswatch.com ========== Approved... by whom? This should be entertaining. Care to trust your company's future to 3 attorneys... who are "approved" by 3G Patent Platform bureaucrats... who are "approved" by the dominant vendors... who also dominate the 3G Patent Platform... who are in a public fever to limit IP royalties? LOL!