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To: scratchmyback who wrote (62468)	4/12/2007 6:03:36 AM
From: Ken S.	Respond to of 196985

Now Nokia is trying to bring everyone's rates down to 3%. Maybe QCOM should put out a press release what the GSM royalty rate is!

To: scratchmyback who wrote (62468)	4/12/2007 6:24:50 AM
From: Ken S.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196985

I don't believe Nokia can say the WCDMA patents are paid up because thes patents are only a few years old. Didn't QCOM have an essentail patent that deals with sychronizing the CDMA signal because the Euronuts didn't want to use the GPS signal? That was around 2001 or so.

To: scratchmyback who wrote (62468)	4/12/2007 7:35:40 AM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 196985

Nokia today confirmed that until 2007 it has paid less than 3 per cent aggregate license fees on WCDMA handset sales under all its patent license agreements. This number represents Nokia's aggregate gross royalty payments made under all the numerous patent license agreements applicable to its WCDMA handsets. It excludes infrastructure related royalties and all royalty income collected by Nokia. Not often you get two concrete statements from companies that are so much in conflict each other. Usually, I can find a bit of wiggle room in statements, but I dont see any here. qualcomm.com Nokia's claim that it has been paying cumulative royalties of no more than 3% on WCDMA products sold through 2007 is intentionally deceptive and misleading. Nokia has been paying a royalty on WCDMA handsets in excess of 3% to QUALCOMM alone. If Nokia's statement is true, there really isnt any room to negotiate. They arent going to get a royalty free cross-license regardless of how long this fight goes. I would split/sell QCT long before I agreed to that. Slacker