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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (144545)	8/26/2006 12:42:21 AM
From: pyslent	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

How is it in QCOM's interests to fail to disclose their patents which were being used to convert olde-style GSM to new-style GPRS? The only motivation I can think of is that without GPRS, there is no WCDMA, so although Qualcomm could have used their blocking IP to ensure that GPRS/EDGE never "saw the light of day," doing so would have prevented the inevitable migration to an all CDMA world. On the other hand, perhaps by whetting the public's apetite on packet data, Qualcomm figured that the migration to WCDMA would be hastened. Also, in the GSM world, everyone (with IP) infringes on everyone else, wielding their IP as "guns aimed at each other," so maybe it was too messy to have to sue the whole GSM ecosystem, and perhaps it didn't seem worth it if they did not think they could get their traditional 5% royalty. All idle speculation.