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To: elmatador who wrote (75395)	6/18/2011 7:38:11 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 218007

It should be an interesting auction: <The presence of the LTE patents has raised concerns that the winner of the auction could gain an unfair advantage over competitors in the 3G 'arms race.' > One claim of one patent can stop anybody [except the government]. Broadcom showed in their dispute with Qualcomm just how much harm one poxy little patent can do to somebody trying to do great things. Broadcom bought a job lot of patents [Qualcomm could have and should have bought them instead] for a cheap price, then made a $billion or so from the project. Perhaps Nortel has some crucial patents in the stash. It will no doubt be a price in the $billions to get hold of them all. Unfortunately, the mere number of patents doesn't indicate anything much, other than that there is a haystack, perhaps with some nuggets hidden inside. China has vast numbers of patents being created, but they might all just be different ways of sharpening chopsticks and different techniques for ringing bells in the pointless TD-SCDMA standard. Mqurice