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To: BubbaFred who wrote (65454)	6/24/2005 5:13:25 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<TD-SCDMA is one of the three international 3G standards with China owning its intellectual property rights. > This could be a lot of fun. Of course China will still need to buy the CDMA rights from QUALCOMM, but being China, will prefer to steal. L M Ericsson used to make such silly claims too about having invented CDMA, but when it came to a court, it turned out that it was in fact QUALCOMM which had invented CDMA. QUALCOMM has offered China very low royalty rates for CDMA products sold in China, but 7% for exported CDMA products. Since China won't be exporting any TD-SCDMA, the derisory 2% royalty for in-China use seems a silly amount to try to avoid. But China does lots of very stupid things, so this might be another. What will be King George II's response to having his cash flow stolen? I suspect a good old-fashioned blockade. Plus some gunboats sailing up the river into Shanghai. That would be fun. If China doesn't want to live by international agreements over property rights, we can all go back to the eons-old dog eat dog world where the biggest brute rules. Maybe in a decade or three, China might do okay like that [I doubt it], but in the meantime, they should probably play nicely and not steal. Of course a court in China would declare that TD-SCDMA is 100% Chinese produced [because they'd be in trouble from Hu Jintao if they don't]. Other unbiased courts have said that QUALCOMM owns the rights. Mqurice