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To: Eric L who wrote (144383)	8/16/2006 7:09:30 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

Updated Litigated Patent Listing ... Not necessarily complete but summarized as follows with the ETSI Declaration Date & the ETSI/3GPP Project it was declared essential to added after locating (or not locating) the declared essential patents ... Patents in Qualcomm vs. Nokia filed in U.S. District Court and with the ITC Patent Patent Number Date Title [ETSI Declared Date & ETSI/3GPP Project] === ======== ======== ================================================ 01) 5257283 10/26/93 Spread Spectrum Transmitter Power Control Method and System [2001-10-19 UMTS] [2005-10-14 GERAN] 02) 5568483 10/22/96 Method and Apparatus for the Formatting of Data for Transmission [2001-10-19 UMTS] [2005-10-14 AMR] 03)² 5590408 12/31/96 Reverse Link, Transmit Power Correction and Limit- ation in a Radiotelephone System [2001-10-19 UMTS] [2005-10-14 GERAN] 03)² 0695482 9/19/95 Same as above but European Patent Office filing. [2005-10-14 GERAN] 04) 5638412 6/10/97 Method for Providing Service and Rate Negotiation in a Mobile Communication System [2001-10-19 UMTS] [2005-10-14 GPRS] 05) 5655220 8/5/97 Reverse Link, Transmit Power Correction and Limit- ation in a Radiotelephone System [2001-10-19 UMTS] [2005-10-14 GERAN] 06] 5742734 4/21/98 Encoding Rate Selection in a Variable Rate Vocoder [2004-04-08 3GPP/AMR-WB] [2005-10-14 AMR] 07) 5778338 7/07/98 Variable Rate Vocoder [2004-04-08 3GPP/AMR-WB] [2005-10-14 AMR] 08)² 6453182 9/17/02 Wireless Telephone Airplane and Alarm Clock Modes [Not Found] 09) 6496543 12/17/02 Method And Apparatus for Providing High Speed Data Communications in a Cellular Environment [2005-10-14 GERAN] 10) 6574211 6/03/03 Method And Apparatus For High Rate Packet Data Transmission [2005-10-14 GERAN] 11) 6667894 1/13/04 Method And Apparatus For Providing Location-Based Information Via A Computer Network [2004-06-04 3GPP, GPRS, GSM] 12) 6868267 3/15/05 Apparatus, Method, and Article of Manufacture Used to Invoice for Services Consumed in a Communications Network [Not Found] 13)¹ 5452104 9/19/95 Adaptive Block Size Image Compression Method and System [2006-04-25 3GPP] 14)¹ 5452473 9/19/95 Reverse Link, Transmit Power Correction and Limit- ation in a Radiotelephone System [2001-10-19 UMTS] 14)² 0695482 9/19/95 Same as above but European Patent Office filing. [2005-10-14 GERAN] 15)¹ 5576767 11/19/96 Interframe Video Encoding and Decoding System [2006-04-25 3GPP] · ¹ Filed with ITC, but not U.S. District Court ² One of 6 Filed with ITC ² Filed in UK suit Source for Listing Above: UBS Investment Research (July 17 2006) on QUALCOMM, page 29 ... wirelessledger.com ... and a preliminary search of the ETSI IPR Database: webapp.etsi.org ### - Eric -

To: Eric L who wrote (144383)	8/17/2006 1:51:36 PM
From: rkral	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

*re: "EDGE cane into being well before their creation of TSG GERAN as part of GSM Phase 2+ R'98 published by ETSI."* Well, that makes my hard evidence that Qualcomm Europe representatives were present at TSG GERAN meetings meaningless. Your statement is a bit confusing, but I guess GSM Phase 2+ R'98 preceeded the formation of TSG GERAN. I understand GSM Phase l to be GSM w/o GPRS, GSM Phase 2 to add GPRS, and GSM Phase 2+ to add EDGE. Is that correct? What then was the mission of TSG GERAN? Considering my ADD, would you please post a brief answer? :-))

To: Eric L who wrote (144383)	8/19/2006 7:38:39 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

EricL, thanks for your detailed investigations and reporting, which are much appreciated. The history of QCOM's participation in GSM development was loud and clear. Similarly for GPRS, EDGE and W-CDMA. Cyberspace has records everywhere. SI has a fairly good record too. I'd be very surprised if QCOM finally attending, passively it seems and as I recall, GSM/GPRS/EDGE/W-CDMA friendly FRANDly meetings involved QCOM unwittingly agreeing to give away their intellectual property. While there might be a couple of naive newbie QCOM individuals who did attend such meetings, and unwittingly showed more participation and personal integration than was wise among a pack of hyenas, who might have seemed friendly and intelligent participants in a happy search for extra-TDMA intelligence, it's a long stretch to suppose that means QCOM forfeited their intellectual property rights to some one-for-all, all-for-one communist system of property being subsumed for the common good. We had Ericsson claiming to have invented CDMA back in the 1890s and that QCOM had nothing to do with W-CDMA, let alone GSM. Now we are asked to believe that not only did QCOM invent a lot of W-CDMA, but that they also invented some vital parts of GSM, GPRS, and EDGE and not only that, they agreed to give away their right to collect any payment for their invention of modern-day GSM, perhaps by inadvertent attendance at multi-mode meetings intended to make W-CDMA a happening technology, which they did achieve [though the GSM Guild almost stymied it with dopey ideas on how it should work]. I know people make mistakes, and big ones at that, but it would be very strange given the circumstances, if some QCOM people blundered into GSM meetings and gave away the keys to the castle to people who had for years given all the warning in the world that they were out to rape, pillage and plunder the CDMA citadel. QCOM staff capable of attending such meetings couldn't possibly be ignorant of the background. The "passive" comment itself is suggestive that they were very wary, rather than diffident, baffled, overwhelmed, ignorant, etc. They were obviously there as observers rather than gung ho participants. I'm sure there are lawyers climbing all over this. What a LOT of fun it must be to have big companies with loads of cash and vast legal consequences, not to mention geopolitical games among sovereign countries in WTO and other trade relationships, not to mention military positions. The lawyers are in their element. Let's hope the QCOM ones know what they are about. And let's hope the various technical people in QCOM didn't blunder as you are suggesting they might have done by attending 3GPP and other gung ho industry groups. It must be more fun than searching Granny's carry-on bag for toothpaste and lip balm which could be terrorist explosives, though the authorities are loving the latest terrorist liquidity threat, as they love all of them. They get to strut around in uniforms, carrying guns, and boss people and frighten them with state power, which makes terrorist power look pathetic. Around the world, millions of people are queuing at stupid security checks, flights cancelled. It is simply impossible to hijack another aircraft with box-cutters, or scimitars, let alone nail clippers. It must be tempting to be a terrorist just for the fun of seeing the chaos that trivial acts such as getting claustrophobia can provoke. Aircrew must be really stupid and pathetic if they can't handle an old lady getting panicky without diverting the flight. Then they send fighter jets up to accompany it, and perhaps shoot it down if necessary [or somebody makes a 'frandly-fire' mistake]. I wonder if a Granny could hijack a 747 full of people by calling out "I've got a lip-balm bomb and am taking over the plane. Don't anybody do anything stupid. We are going to Havana." Mqurice

To: Eric L who wrote (144383)	8/19/2006 7:39:38 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 152472

EricL, I simply can't believe that QCOM staff could have, even inadvertently, given away the rights to intellectual property to keep GSM going and by upgrade to GPRS and to do the same with EDGE. When I say given away, according to Nokia, it was actually given away without payment expected. Perhaps their argument is that QCOM was hoping to make W-CDMA work and to get into the W-CDMA group, QCOM had to join the GSM Guild in full, making all technology available at no charge, or perhaps Nokia really thinks they have a FRANDly licence including all wireless modes, flavours, bands, areas, technologies and inter alia ipso facto. An accidental giving away of QCOM rights to GSM/GPRS/EDGE would be one of the world's biggest corporate blunders. It would make Globalstar's mismanagement pale into trivia. Globalstar's wasn't a blunder, it was sheer bloody-minded obdurate stupidity and only destroyed $10bn in market capitalisation. QCOM gave away $100bn in spectrum value in Europe alone. Not to mention the value of spectrum in China, transferred by agreeing to a derisory royalty of 2.6% or thereabouts, albeit compensated by a 7% or thereabouts export royalty [for some limited time perhaps]. And the value of spectrum in the USA. And elsewhere. Being over a barrel in the early 1990s, QCOM also agreed to absurdly low royalty rates - free in some instances, for a period of time - but generally around 5% instead of a more sensible matching of GSM [since the technology was more or less competing on voice only at that time] at about 16% [or 30% for complete outsiders apparently]. To that we now have to add, if Nokia is correct, the loss of sales and royalties because GSM has been so successful for years, and QCOM isn't entitled to payment for that success of GSM/GPRS/EDGE although QCOM technology enabled the success. Total value foregone by QCOM must be about $500 bn. We could perhaps add that maybe W-CDMA would never have succeeded and everyone would have swapped to CDMA2000 with huge profits to QCOM as a result. QCOM would have had funding for early and rapid OFDM development, instead of leaving it to Flarion and others. More umpty $billions there, with wifi and wimax gobbling market share in the absence of a decent QCOM OFDM service ready to roll in macro, micro and picocell, multi-mode, mult-band formats. And QCOM has been so busy fighting rear-guard GPRS actions that they have been distracted from making pulsed monocycle systems using quantum computers with Qi currency as the biggest killer app the world has seen. Irwin was reading "The Elegant Universe" years ago, presumably with the intention of figuring out how to make GSRS [TM] [Graviton Spin Reversal System] work using Calabi Yau string theory magic which would make breaching the laws of physics in photon phragmentation look trivial. Which would have solved the world's energy and Greenhouse Effect worries and made transportation supersonic, safe, clean and cheap. Total value foregone due to Nokia's machinations, about $60 trillion. Which with a population of 6 billion, that's only about $10,000 per person, which is a bargain for total communication and information supply [including x-ray vision], no Greenhouse woes, no sea level rise, transport of amazing quality, speed and price, a perfect currency, and all the spin-offs. For example, the whole military woes of the world would have gone away too, as the basis for the conflicts would have gone [maybe there would still be policing of young guys getting full of turps and needing to be subdued]. That would be a a few more dollars in value saved. It would probably have been more like $100 trillion in improvements. QCOM could have kept a small portion of that and done quite well by the shareholders. Then, there's the "standing on the shoulders of the past" effect, where 6 billion people could get going on more useful things than text messaging to save $1, and fighting over obsolete oil. They could for example figure out genetic engineering on a grand scale and develop cyberspace up to fully sentient extra-somatic next-generation intelligence = no more being bound by wet chemistry in little bony reptilian skulls. Intelligence and 'being' could lift of out of the realms of DNA into the aether. It would not be a stretch to say that God has been blocked by Nokia. The implication of that is that not something one would wish to contemplate when eternity in hell is the consequence of doing the Devil's work [or actually being the Devil]. Anyway, I don't wish to overstate my case, so I'll leave it at that. I'm sure the GSM Hagfish Guild meant well. I bet God loves hagfish as well as people. Mqurice