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To: engineer who wrote (72914)	1/1/2008 10:21:37 PM
From: JGoren	Respond to of 196668

Don't worry threadmates. Be happy. I assume Qcom will issue a press release before the market opens tomorrow. There will be workarounds. The only question will be if the Company announces they already have them in the press release. It may not say so in the press release. Qcom didn't do it with the '983 patent in the ITC case for legal reasons; besides, the carriers have to approve them and that may take a little time. The best thing about the decision is it sets a royalty rate that virtually mandates Nokia should extend the license contract. What will be interesting is to see if Broadcomm now attempts to get royalties from VZ and Sprint--again taking a knock at the Nokia patent exhaustion theory. Once again, the decision shows me that it is more valuable to have noo-essential patents than essential ones and that essential patent holders are not being compensated enough for their patents. I wonder why the evidence allowed the judge to set royalty rates of 6% and 4.5% for two of the patents but not the third patent which he left to negotiation before he would set a rate?

To: engineer who wrote (72914)	1/1/2008 10:25:29 PM
From: mindykoeppel	Respond to of 196668

Engineer - thenk you for all your insight and happy new year! Keep posting. We need your encouragement.

To: engineer who wrote (72914)	1/1/2008 10:39:39 PM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 196668

No, but there is alot more to things than just them callin gyou all up and telling you what the daily plan is. If they don;t tell you , then you complain. I wasnt complaining in '05, but 30 months after this started, I think it is past time that we should see some progress. In the end, they will all settle. They have to. We agree on something, but timing matters. Right now, Q strategy looks like this will run into 2010. That would be 4 1/2 years of having Q's shareholders held hostage to litigation. At a certain point, the buck stops at the top. Slacker