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To: 49thMIMOMander who wrote (25465)	7/25/2003 11:07:31 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Louie Louie (as in Lupin) [the "clean" version] Three nights and days we sailed the sea. Me think of girl constantly. On the ship, I dream she there. I smell the rose in her hair. Louie Louie, me gotta go. Me see Jamaican moon above. It won't be long me see me love. Me take her in my arms and then I tell her I never leave again. Louie Louie, oh baby, I said we gotta go >> Qualcomm Takes Legal Action Against Rival TI Tom Foremski in San Francisco The Financial Ttimes July 25 2003 news.ft.com Qualcomm, the leading US mobile phone chipmaker, on Friday took legal action that could block rival Texas Instruments in its bid to enter core Qualcomm markets. The move signals the start of a potentially long and bitter legal battle over the rights to multi-billion dollar markets. The San Diego, California based company filed a lawsuit in Delaware state court that claims TI breached the terms of a patent portfolio agreement that was signed by the two companies in December 2000. That agreement gave each company the rights to make chips based on all wireless phone technologies. TI is accused of breaching the confidential parts of the agreement. The lawsuit asks for unspecified damages and the termination of the agreement. "Texas Instruments made some public comments in May that were supposed to remain confidential," said Lou Lupin, senior vice-president and general counsel at Qualcomm. He said Qualcomm would seek substantial damages from TI that were caused by the disclosure. TI, the second largest US chipmaker, and a leader in communications chip markets, in mid-May it said it would produce chips based on the code division multiple access (CDMA) mobile phone technology. CDMA was largely developed by Qualcomm and it is core to its business. However, if Qualcomm succeeds in terminating the patent agreement, TI could lack the intellectual property rights to produce CDMA chips. "I'm not surprised by the lawsuit because for the first time, Qualcomm is up against a formidable competitor," said Will Strauss, head of Forward Concepts, a US market research company focusing on communications chip markets. Mr Strauss said that the legal battle could become a long and drawn out affair. "Intel used the same tactis against their competitor AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) in the 1980s. And though they kept losing in court, Intel managed to delay AMD's development of competing chips," Mr Strauss said. TI said that it had not yet received the lawsuit and had no response. STMicroelectronics, Europe's largest chipmaker and Nokia, the largest mobile phone maker are partners in TI's bid to develop and sell a family of CDMA chips for mobile phones. The CDMA market has taken off in recent years as South Korea, Japan and other Asian countries have adopted the technology. Qualcomm filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Maxim, a leading analogue chipmaker at the end of last year. That dispute has not yet been resolved. << - Eric -