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To: Jim Mullens who wrote (144620)	8/28/2006 7:01:02 PM
From: BDAZZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

>>why would their initial response to the press be –we believe our license covers the Q’s GSM IPR-<< After reading the new PDF it now appears Nokia's strategy is that they have nothing to lose. It may be they feel they can get QCOM to call this all off whenever they want and return to status quo by agreeing to the new QCOM license and calling off the Euro dogs. So why not throw a bunch of crap at the court and hope something will stick. Hopefully get this thing into arbitration and maybe gain a quarter percent royalty break which will mean millions in the proliferation of 3G.

To: Jim Mullens who wrote (144620)	8/28/2006 7:15:31 PM
From: iggyl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Maybe Nokia thought way back when, when they signed the agreement, products would all be switched over to WCDMA by the time the non-infringement time period expired and there would be no problem with infringement on GSM, GPRS and EDGE since it wouldn't be in use?

To: Jim Mullens who wrote (144620)	8/28/2006 11:51:19 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 152472

<+ why would their initial response to the press be –we believe our license covers the Q’s GSM IPR- when they knew full well it did not,> I suppose one could mention words like slimeball, hagfish, honesty [not something one associates with the GSM Guild], etc... Any relationship with reality seems not to be a Nokia need. For over a decade now, they have said [along with King Ericy in the early years] pretty much anything they like about anything they like and it doesn't seem to need to be true. When will W-CDMA be ready? Soon enough to bid $100bn for spectrum to run it. And on and on and on. Will there be royalties due to QCOM? No way - are you nuts? We invented CDMA back in 1890. Anyway, it's GSM, not CDMA. Mqurice