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To: stealthy who wrote (7799)	1/31/1998 3:22:00 AM
From: GO*QCOM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

QUALCOMM has mastered production and is the largest producer of CDMA phones.The company has designed chips MSM and CSM as well as the new MSM2300 enabling smaller handsets.No one has come close and to date they have not seen any meaningful competition.QUALCOMM is moving all of there phones and INCREASING there production.Anadigits supplies AG chips and QUALCOMM was using them along with other suppliers.QUALCOMM has since designed around alot of this stuff and is doing fine enough to INCREASE to approching 600,000 phones at QPE a month.Hey you guys are worring to much sweating another companies problems and not focusing on the BIG picture.QUALCOMM will lead CDMAone wideband as they are light years ahead of all these international players.None of these other telecom equitment makers have yet to even come up with a functioning ASIC CDMA chip.QUALCOMM has seen the toughest challenges and has WON all of them and continues to do as we speak.QUALCOMM past success comes from world class leadership and world class engineers who work very hard to see the dream through.This talk of doom and gloom coming QUALCOMM's way makes me laugh.I remember doom about how the CDMA technology would crash and burn.Pardon me as I take a quick call on my Q phone oh yes it works.Let me see now I'm supposed to worry about some low tech AG chip bring QUALCOMM down due to a fall off in orders gee I don't think so!

To: stealthy who wrote (7799)	1/31/1998 9:53:00 AM
From: Harvey Rosenkrantz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

In my perusal of the Patent Office website, came across this interesting table. Of the top 11 companies to obtain US patents in 1997, 7 are Japanese and I believe 5 or 6 of them (plus MOT) hold QCOM cdma licenses. With this kind of innovative power behind the technology, there should be great strides into the future. PTO 98-1 / JANUARY 12, 1998 CONTACT Richard Maulsby /Lisa-Joy Zgorski (703) 305-8341 USPTO ANNOUNCES TOP PATENT EARNERS IBM AGAIN TOPS THE LIST ARLINGTON, VA -- The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced the top patent recipients for the 1997 calendar year. The USPTO received over 210,000 patent applications in 1997 and issued over 120,000 patents. The following organizations received the most patents for inventions, i.e. utility patents. 1997 Rank 1997 Patents Organization 1996 Rank 1996 Patents 1 1,724 IBM 1 1,867 2 1,381 Canon 2 1,541 3 1,095 NEC Corporation 4 1,043 4 1,058 Motorola Inc 3 1,064 5 935 U.S. GOVERNMENT 7 923 6 903 Fujitsu Limited 9 869 903 Hitachi 5 963 8 892 Mitsubishi 6 934 9 862 Toshiba Corporation 8 914 10 859 Sony 10 855 11 795 Eastman Kodak Company 13 768 For the fifth straight year, IBM received more utility patents than any other non-Federal patenting organization. The top eleven patenting organizations consist of three U.S. corporations, seven Japanese corporations, and the U.S. government. Patent information presented reflects patent ownership at patent grant and does not include changes in ownership which occur after the patent grant. Where more than one assignee (owner)exists, patents are attributed to the first-named assignee.

To: stealthy who wrote (7799)	1/31/1998 11:59:00 AM
From: Clarksterh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Where does the new European agreement say that they are going to use Qualcomm patents? I must have missed it. Just because they are using CDMA does not mean that they have to use Qualcomm's patents. In fact these companies have a tendency to be litigious, so I would expect that even if they end up having to use one or more Qualcomm patents they will file suit to invalidate the patent before they settle. Why does everyone else think otherwise? Is there some press release that I missed? Clark