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To: seti who wrote (146931)	12/11/2006 1:23:17 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 152472

Seti, I agree that's a possible reading [with some stretching] as it wasn't the judge's primary issue. But the judge did call UMTS a market. That's the first step on the road to monopoly and hell. Calling UMTS a "market" basically says any product is an ipso facto market and potential monopoly. A particular brand of toothbrush with a standard design, is a monopoly, even if the company has licensed their technology to other companies on a FRANDly basis, and the patent holder has only a largish market share of that particular toothbrush "market". Even though there are swarms of other toothbrushes. The language looked to me like lining up QCOM for the knacker's yard. Mqurice