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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (8693)	2/8/2008 1:44:48 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12247

In fairness to them, they might not be copying your idea and patenting it. Perhaps they really thought they had invented something but obviously the idea was so obvious that they could figure it out too. Let's face it, it was so obvious that you didn't bother patenting it and you could have made a fortune and funded a whole new Globalstar constellation after buying it out of bankruptcy and designed it properly, along with that tricky minute/megabyte pricing system which you invented [though Motorola patented a similar idea back in 1993]. Any idiot could work out that people would want to have those functions bundled up in one device to take anywhere and remain in contact with HQ and "the cloud". It's surprising the Patent Office would issue a patent for such an obvious integration of functionality. QUALCOMM and others were working on such devices such as the pdQ. QUALCOMM had put the internet protocol in the CDMA system from the beginning so that internet services could be delivered. Mqurice

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (8693)	2/6/2009 9:19:40 AM
From: waitwatchwander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12247

Experimental Results with two Wireless Power Transfer Systems Alanson Sample and Joshua R. Smith Intel and University of Washington This paper describes two wireless power transfer systems. The Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform (WISP) is a platform for sensing and computation that is powered and read by a commercial off-the-shelf UHF (915MHz) RFID reader. WISPs are small sensor devices that consume on the order of 2uW to 2mW, and can be operated at distances of up to several meters from the reader. The second system harvests VHF or UHF energy from TV towers, with power available depending on range and broadcast transmit power. We report on an experiment in which 60uW is harvested at a range of about 4km. White Paper here: techonline.com