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To: slacker711 who wrote (4883)	4/30/2007 10:55:46 PM
From: waitwatchwander	Respond to of 9255

With 3% as Nokia's number the issue is not their contribution to the standard but the value of the patents to which they are paid up. If one assumes they are paid up for the five fundamental patents listed here Message 16815077 and excluded duplicate citations and all those dated after December 2004, the 6542 number would be reduced by 1371. That means once these patents expire Nokia (and others) may be allowed a 20% reduction in current royalty rates for both cdma and wcdma. Ignoring the fact that some of the 1371 patent citations shouldn't be dropped due to also being cited on other non expiring patents, that would reduce the current 4.5% standard rate down to around 3.5%. Nokia might need some further reduction in the rate to account for their small contribution to the market share of others. It is too bad the CDG (or another industry association) couldn't grab this bull by the horns and propose an equitable industry wide patent pooling solution. If folks could agree upon the components of a system a dynamic (bi or tri) annual tallying mechanism shouldn't be that difficult to implement. That's the only solution I see for donkey trough sharing.