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To: waitwatchwander who wrote (752)	12/9/2006 4:35:23 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 1002

QUALCOMM adopted that "new" IEEE patent policy a decade ago by telling everyone over and over and over that the same royalty would apply to the Mickey Mouse VW-40 standard being developed as applied to CDMA IS-95 and that while the technical details of the CDMA standard might be changed, such as chip rate, synchronisation, turbo-coding, and whatnot, the royalty would not. Which did not mean that sweetheart deals from the early 1990s would be repeated, when QCOM was over a barrel and had to get support from Motorola and Nokia to get IS-95 underway The slimeball hagfish ignored QCOM and proceeded in a bloody-minded way with their VW-40 monstrosity, which is only now surging to success, [sort of, though it's not being used as expected], a decade later, after changing around to better match what QCOM had originally suggested. L M Ericsson and the GSM Guild even had the colossal gall to claim that QCOM technology was irrelevant to W-CDMA. It will be interesting to see them stand up in court and explain all that background nice and slowly so the judge can understand. There was no surprise. QCOM said all along what the royalties would be. And would Nokia please explain why they haven't been paying royalties for GSM/GPRS/EDGE [without any CDMA mode] despite using QCOM patents. Mqurice