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To: Dave who wrote (14577)	9/4/1998 4:58:00 PM
From: shoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Yer right, Dave, and that's the problem that's worrying me. I'm sure that Qcom will vigorously defend its intellectual property rights. But, with Nokia in cahoots with the Japanese gov't, it will take Qcom years to press its case through the Japanese courts. Meanwhile NTT will establish its subscriber base and Nokia will sell millions of phones based on their phoney (no pun intended) WCDMA protocol and never pay a red cent to Qualcomm. The same scenario is possible in Europe. When governments get involved, things get tricky. I doubt that Qualcomm can resolve this problem on their own; they need strong U.S. backing. (Look at what Boeing has to put with with Airbus.) What we need is some good legal advice concerning the magnitude of this problem and how quickly it can be resolved. Best wishes.