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To: rkral who wrote (68150)	8/23/2007 1:19:08 PM
From: pyslent	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197472

My impression is the 2001 CDMA License Agreement covered both essential and non-essential CDMA, WCDMA, and GSM patents used in CDMA and WCDMA products manufactured by Nokia. This included multi-mode products even though one of the modes was GSM. I agree with what you've said, but more to the point, which of Nokia's patents do you suppose is included the cross-license in the other direction? All of them? I've assumed that the Brew, mediaFLO, etc implementation patents that Nokia recently asserted against Qualcomm would have been covered by the 2001 agreement, and I found it telling that Nokia did not wait for the arbitration rulings before filing suit. Obviously, their claims of infringement are severely weakened if arbitrators were to find that Qualcomm has an existing license for the patents!