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To: JGoren who wrote (75582)	3/19/2008 3:56:06 PM
From: JeffreyHF	Respond to of 197281

And then there are those pesky non-essential implementation patents and peripheral IPR, as well as patents related to OFDMA, A-GPS, and other non-ETSI technologies. As Broadcom has established, they can be very expensive, and disruptive to business.

To: JGoren who wrote (75582)	3/19/2008 10:47:42 PM
From: Stock Farmer	Respond to of 197281

Nokia has got to state exactly which patents it uses, and I don't think it ever has. Nokia is very cleverly ducking responsibility for declaring which patents it uses versus which patents it does not. It is asserting that the only patents for which they do not have licenses are those patents which they either do not implement (so they don't need licenses), or those patents which Qualcomm has not asserted to ETSI are essential IPRs. They have then further reduced the remaining unlicensed subset of Qualcomm's patents by virtue of having obtained a fully paid up license for some of the early IPR (see par's 94 through 100). What's left? A much more difficult battle to fight. My view on this is that Nokia is attempting to leverage Qualcomm back to the negotiating table, by showing them that the best alternative to a comprehensive negotiated settlement is a patent-by-patent battle which will result in lower royalties being paid than the "one price buys all patents" proposal currently on the table, and furthermore also be much more expensive to secure.