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To: slacker711 who wrote (144640)	8/29/2006 10:13:39 AM
From: JeffreyHF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Re: Non-discriminatory Does the concept require obtaining licenses from all who use your IPR, or does it simply mean that as to those whom you choose to license, the terms relative to each other must be non-discriminatory?

To: slacker711 who wrote (144640)	8/29/2006 11:34:58 AM
From: Clarksterh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

All of the above patent declarations have the following notation which indicates that Qualcomm will abide by clause 6.1 of the IPR policy..... Do you have a pointer to an actual Q declaration to ETSI for GSM? (There is something odd about this. Why would they FRAND for a standard where ETSI has no leverage over Q? Was it in relation only to their use with UMTS?)

To: slacker711 who wrote (144640)	8/29/2006 11:47:57 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 152472

There are people I have known who seem uncomfortable telling straight truth. It's as though if they don't have an angle, an exaggeration, a twist, trick and a lie, they aren't getting the most for themselves. Their relationship with reality seems tenuous at best. Words are nothing to them but a dishonest means to advantage at the expense of others. I am not in the slightest surprised that Nokia [allegedly] said: <Nokia also contends that it would not have invested heavily in developing the WCDMA standard if it had known that Qualcomm would charge differential rates from it and its competitors.> Simply amazing. Par for the course. Typical. But amazing nevertheless. So, what would they have done? They have announced that they are giving up on CDMA2000 [ignoring the fact that they are simultaneously saying they aren't]. Without W-CDMA, what would they plan on selling 5 years from now, gumboots? If they also lose out on GSM/GPRS/EDGE sales, they would have been out of business without W-CDMA in no time at all. Maybe it's not true that they said that. Some things which are obviously untrue, stupid etc, one can know weren't said. For example, we would know such a stupidly false comment wouldn't have come from Dr Irwin Jacobs. But coming from Nokia, it's completely typical so probably it was said by them. I wonder if their website has the actual quote. That would be funny. Mqurice

To: slacker711 who wrote (144640)	8/30/2006 9:36:55 AM
From: rkral	Respond to of 152472

"In September '04, they amended 626 of their patent declarations to ETSI to indicate that they were applicable to the GSM and GPRS standards as well as 3GPP." Focusing on just the U.S. patents declared, I found the 46 patents listed below. Almost all are related to GPS and location-based services. U.S. Patent No. Patent title 5,289,527 Mobile Communications Device Registration Method 5,663,734 GPS Receiver and Method for Processing GPS Signals 5,781,156 GPS Receiver and Method for Processing GPS Signals 5,812,087 Method and Apparatus for Satellite Positioning System Based Time Measurement 5,841,396 GPS Receiver Utilizing a Communication Link 5,874,914 GPS Receiver Utilizing a Communication Link 5,884,214 GPS Receiver and Method for Processing GPS Signals 5,945,944 Method and Apparatus for Determining Time for GPS Receivers 5,999,124 Satellite Positioning System Augmentation with Wireless Communication Signals 6,052,081 Method and Apparatus for Satellite Positioning System Based Time Measurement 6,061,018 Method and System for Using Altitude Information in a Satellite Positioning System 6,064,336 GPS Receiver Utilizing a Communication Link 6,081,229 System and Method for Determining the Position of a Wireless CDMA Transceiver 6,104,340 GPS Receiver and Method for Processing GPS Signals 6,107,960 Reducing Cross-Interference in a Combined GPS Receiver and Communication System 6,131,067 Client-Server Based Remote Locator Device 6,133,874 Method and Apparatus for Acquiring Satellite Positioning System Signals 6,150,980 Method and Apparatus for Determining Time for GPS Receivers 6,185,427 Distributed Satellite Position System Processing and Application Network 6,208,290 GPS Receiver Utilizing a Communication Link 6,239,742 Method and Apparatus for Satellite Positioning System Based Time Measurement 6,272,430 GPS Receiver and Method for Processing GPS Signals 6,313,786 Method and Apparatus for Acquiring Satellite Positioning System Signals 6,377,209 Method and Apparatus for Satellite Positioning System (SPS) Time Measurement 6,400,314 GPS Receiver Utilizing a Communication Link 6,421,002 GPS Receiver Utilizing a Communication Link 6,429,815 Method and apparatus for determining search center and size in searches for GPS transmissions 6,433,731 Method and Apparatus for Determining Time in a Satellite Positioning System 6,433,734 Method and Apparatus for Determining Time for GPS Receivers 6,542,743 Method and Apparatus for Reducing Pilot Search Times Utilizing Mobile Station Location Information 6,542,821 GPS Receiver and Method for Processing GPS Signals 6,583,757 Method and Apparatus for Satellite Positioning System (SPS) Time Measurement 6,597,311 Method and Apparatus for Determining Time in a Satellite Positioning System 6,661,372 Client-Server Based Remote Locator Device 6,665,541 Methods and Apparatuses for Using Mobile GPS Receivers to Synchronize Basestations in Cellular Networks 6,677,894 Method and Apparatus for Providing Location-Based Information Via a Computer Network N/A GPS Receiver and Method for Processing GPS Signals N/A Method and Apparatus for Acquiring Satellite Positioning System Signals N/A Methods and Apparatuses for Controlling Distribution of Location Information N/A System and Method for Reference Data Processing in Network Assisted Position Determination N/A Creating and Using Base Station Almanac Information in a Wireless Communication System Having a Position Location Capability N/A Method, Apparatus and System for Signal Prediction N/A GPS Satellite Signal Acquisition Assistance System and Method in a Wireless Communications Network N/A GPS Satellite Signal Acquisition Assistance System and Method in a Wireless Communications Network N/A Method and Apparatus for Reducing Pilot Search Times Utilizing Mobile Station Location Information N/A Apparatus and Method for Reducing Code Phase Search Space of a GPS Receiver Notes common to all of the above: (1) On 24 SEPTEMBER 2004, Qualcomm Inc. appended their information statement and licensing declaration of essential IPRs of 4 June 2004, for project 3GPP, by adding the projects GSM and GPRS to their above-mentioned declaration. (2) The SIGNATORY and/or its AFFILIATES hereby declare that they are prepared to grant irrevocable licenses under the IPRs on terms and conditions which are in accordance with Clause 6.1 of the ETSI IPR Policy, in respect of the STANDARD, to the extent that that patents remain ESSENTIAL.