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To: Stan who wrote (62730)	4/17/2007 10:35:06 AM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 197214

i wonder if nok/qcom want to take risk of supreme court getting into patent protection. etc. certainly a ruling on royalties would settle many, many issues. there goes arbitration.

To: Stan who wrote (62730)	4/17/2007 12:22:55 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Respond to of 197214

Stan, thanks for providing that info on LG patent issues, which certainly could impact some of the ongoing litigation involving QCOM. Some of the licensing agreements between QCOM and its licensees have provisions similar to the LG agreement with outside manufacturers, but I'm not sure that the issue (where to collect royalties, from sale of the chip or from the sale of the product containing the chip) is in question in the QCOM litigation. As far as Nokia is concerned, the issue with QCOM is whether Nokia can sell anything that uses QCOM IPO when the license has expired. And the related issue is whether the royalty that Nokia now concedes it must pay is reasonable. Art