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To: 100cfm who wrote (48521)11/7/2005 5:54:44 PM
From: carranza2  Respond to of 196559
 
Who knows.

Perhaps the applications matter.



To: 100cfm who wrote (48521)11/7/2005 7:06:28 PM
From: jackmore  Respond to of 196559
 
>>Don't all of Q's agreements have a clause that automaticaly include any subsequent patents that arise during the term of the agreement.<<

That's what we've been led to believe. But it may only be patents as they apply to the WCDMA flavors in the license. It may not include Snaptrack patents, or any other patents that may apply to GSM, i.e. Q has not licensed for GSM.

This is all very interesting.



To: 100cfm who wrote (48521)11/7/2005 7:51:11 PM
From: Rich Bloem  Respond to of 196559
 
Don't all of Q's agreements have a clause that automaticaly include any subsequent patents that arise during the term of the agreement

Yes, and Nokia has the use of those patents for CDMA/WCDMA and TDS-CDMA but NOT for GSM/GPRS/EDGE. That is the whole crux of the problem. Nobody is paying Q on GPRS/EDGE phones, but they are necessarily using Q's patent portfolio to build those products.


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