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To: LarsA who wrote (144520)	8/25/2006 12:19:03 PM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

Just to add another datapoint to the discussion....there was a non-assert period of 3 years in the original 3G license that Nokia signed in '01. The argument can definitely be made that Qualcomm should have brought these patents up in the discussion prior to the signing of that license but since then, Qualcomm couldnt assert those patents until July '04. From an ITC filing.... E. The Federal Court Action Immediately after the expiration of the three-year non-assert, Qualcomm began declaring patents it had held since 2001 as essential to GSM.31 On November 4,2005, Qualcomm filed a lawsuit against Nokia in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, San Diego division. In that case, Qualcomm alleges that unspecified Nokia products practicing the "GSM family of standards" infringe twelve Qualcomm patents.32 Qualcomm has asserted three of those same patents in the present action, Slacker