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To: slacker711 who wrote (139755)	10/31/2005 10:20:36 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

You might not have seen my edit. If you discount the payment of internal royalties from QCT to QTL as a transfer of cash from the right pocket to the left pocket, the difference to those who buy Q's chips is definitely substantial. If Q can get away with this, its market share will definitely increase substantially. If your scenarios are correct, I now understand the beef. ...is the agreement with the standards organisations to offer FRAND IPR deals legally binding? Absolutely, but what is FRAND? The Five Percent Club has its ideas and Q has its own. With the proviso that I am not an antitrust lawyer, it is my understanding that tying is illegal only if the company seling tied products has the market power to make the customer purchase the unwanted and unnecessary product. As respects bundled IPR, current law seems to allow it: fedcir.gov