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To: carranza2 who wrote (146679)	11/29/2006 10:15:34 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Respond to of 152472

I cannot imagine Q licensing individual essential patents, then allowing the licensee to litigate the validity of individual non-licensed patents which might be extensions of the licensed one. I hope you're right. It's true that QCOM tries to patent every conceivable aspect related to wireless before others are able to submit anything similar. But what if Nokia argues that using something similar to a QCOM patented method for CDMA also would work on GSM, and that the GSM application is not "obvious?" And what if the court accepts such an argument? Then our goose is cooked. Art