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To: kech who wrote (53351)	7/8/2006 9:52:25 PM
From: Clarksterh	Respond to of 197011

I thought the general spirit of the 3GPP process was for the companies to put patents into the standard that they already had, once Qualcomm's critical patents were in. If they had many. The point here is that during the standardization process it is possible to 'see where things are going' and make land grabs there. That is apparently what Nokia did to a much greater extent than Q. (Not really a surprise because until WCDMA Nokia clearly didn't think much of/about CDMA.) Clark

To: kech who wrote (53351)	7/9/2006 12:14:00 AM
From: voop	Respond to of 197011

please reference the Bekkers paper figures 2 and 3 fp.tm.tue.nl that demonstrate the patents from QUALCOMM and IDCC preceded the locking of the WCDMA standard "For Qualcomm, 199 of its 226 claimed essential patents were applied for in 1996 or earlier. That is years before the basic technology for UMTS was selected (in 1999). Although there is usually some delay between the priority date and the moment other parties can see the claims, there is little doubt that at the UMTS technology selection it was clear that Qualcomm owned an extensive portfolio of relevant patents. Also, Qualcomm was not involved in any of the proposals to ETSI (focusing on its competing cdma2000 technology instead) and was relatively absent when the standard was further setand drafted." while patents from Nokia and Erickson were pushed at the same time the standard wss finished.