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To: bronx who wrote (68119)	8/22/2007 9:39:35 AM
From: JeffreyHF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197452

Altman never has admitted that Qualcomm is infringing Nokia's IPR. He merely said, in anticipation of the license expiration date last April, that Qualcomm would no longer be licensed to use Nokia's patents in the manufacture of chipsets. He never conceded that those patents must be necessarily used. (However, I doubt that Qualcomm did not use, and continues not to use, some of Nokia's patents.)

To: bronx who wrote (68119)	8/22/2007 9:49:27 AM
From: scratchmyback	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 197452

<<To split hairs, is Altman right that both NOK and Q are now infringing?... Let's split some more hairs then. The 2001 agreement expired last April, so neither Nokia nor Qualcomm is infringing that agreement. The fact that Nokia does have an option to renew it is another story, but I think it's impossible to "infringe" an option that hasn't been executed. On the other hand, Nokia is infringing Qualcomm's patents and Qualcomm is infringing Nokia's patents. The question is just what these patents are worth, and how much Nokia and Qualcomm should pay each other. Disclaimer: I am a Nokia-centric euro-nut-socialist-serf non-lawyer