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To: engineer who wrote (53342)	7/8/2006 1:14:38 PM
From: data_rox	Respond to of 197011

morning engineer so, are there essential WCDMA patents which expire soon? Since NOK and others in Euro were early in filing, does their patents also expire giving them less percentage of "essential patents"? probably....but just like GSM, which is public domain in some peoples eyes still draws new IP patents licensing agreements, your second question also comes into play... One more thought. Does an improvement patent, one which is based on a previous patent, and adds to the functionality of it, thus extend the original patent due to it's citing? Can that improvment patent thus stand on it's own merits or can someone replace a simliar patent under the improvment patent which would tend to create a new foundation? You probably have a better handle on this than I do, but IMO, yes, the new claims and improvements extend the "life" of the underlying patent. Much will also rest upon the type of contract that is used to cover the entire portfolio and extentions. fp.tm.tue.nl interesting read Politics of Open Standards, Modular Innovation, and the Geography of Strategic Patenting in GSM and UMTS Technologies Henrik Glimstedt, (with assistance of Anna Karlsson and Gerardo M. Arizmendi) Institute of International Business Stockholm School of Economics innovation.lth.se

To: engineer who wrote (53342)	7/8/2006 4:05:40 PM
From: Clarksterh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197011

so, are there essential WCDMA patents which expire soon? Since NOK and others in Euro were early in filing, does their patents also expire giving them less percentage of "essential patents"? Probably not. As the paper on the relative merits of WCDMA patents made clear, Q started filing patent claims well before WCDMA standardization whereas Nokia started filing patents as part of the standardization process. Does an improvement patent, one which is based on a previous patent, and adds to the functionality of it, thus extend the original patent due to it's citing? Forgotten the terminology, but there are two kinds of patents: a) Ones that clarify/extend the claims a previous patent and thus expire at the same time as the original. b) A completely new patent - with its own separate life. Clark