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To: waitwatchwander who wrote (57663)	12/12/2006 7:35:53 PM
From: Clarksterh	Respond to of 196412

Aren't you trending on thin ice here? A significant part of a patents value is time. A standard also has a time element associated with it. Clearly this is not easy. Yes, an absolutely fundamental (no workaround possible) patent with only 5 years left on it is worth less than a similar patent with 15 years left. But this problem exists even if the patent value is set in a hostage situation. This is a separate problem and needs to be addressed regardless - so you might as well address it in a fair way (i.e. accord value according to what reasonable people would have accorded at the time when the decision was made to incorporate the patent - and that might be zero if people at that time reasonably believed the patent would expire before the first product came out the door.) Clark

To: waitwatchwander who wrote (57663)	12/14/2006 4:08:50 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196412

Quite right: <The value of a patent should be accorded it at the time the standard is being set - how essential is it then? If the courts cannot recognize this then they are setting the stage to destroy the standardization process as we know it. The companies with the really essential patents will refuse to play - after all, why should they if their property will not be accorded accurate worth post facto. > And QUALCOMM explained that they would require their normal royalty from W-CDMA With that requirement ringing in their ears, the VW-40 gang went ahead and included QCOM's intellectual property in the W-CDMA collage. The GSM Guild wants to play Calvin-Ball. Mqurice