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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (48477)11/6/2005 3:00:55 AM
From: Raymond  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 196444
 
Maurice!
If I buy your notion that QCOMs essential patents are more essential then others.What happens when they expire.I suppose the basic CDMA patents will expire in a few years.Or is is so systematically even for later patents that QCOMs IPR is more valuable(I guess I know your answer)?
What do you think of the GSM patents ?should QCOM pay for them or not?.QCOMs WCDMA ASICs would not be possible to sell without having GSM implemented.
/R



To: Maurice Winn who wrote (48477)11/6/2005 7:59:53 AM
From: xihubber  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 196444
 
Is there something ambiguous to you with the use of the word "essential"? Seems pretty straight forward to me. If they didn't mean "essential" wouldn't they have not used the word?
Perhaps it means something different in your hemisphere (;->