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To: Dave who wrote (15521)	9/25/1998 7:37:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Dave, you asked: "Why is everyone limiting the argument to just ericsson. Remember, companies such as, inter alia, Nokia, Lucent, Alcatel, Siemens and Motorolla manufacture/design TDMA/GSM systems. Who says they can't provide a W-CDMA system to their customers?" Not really limited to L M Ericsson, but they are the scummy, contemptible, crowd making the claims about inventing CDMA in mobile and the multimedia option, leading the charge to steal Qualcomm's property. I don't know 'inter alia', which is I suppose an Italian manufacturer, but Nokia has bought a cdmaOne licence [why pay when they think Qualcomm doesn't have rights to cdma in mobile intellectual property?], Lucent via Philips arrangement already has a cdma2000 licence, I don't know about Alcatel and Siemens which are not claiming to be CDMA inventors. Motorola bought a cdmaOne licence. You ask who says they can't 'provide a W-CDMA system to their customers?'. I do. Qualcomm Inc does. The USA Congress, Senate, President, Judiciary and Military do. The United Nations does. Most people in the world want civilization so they do too. Bill Clinton will be looking for a unifying rallying point for Americans. Tomahawking some terrorists in Taleban land is not that satisfying. Defending Congressional Medal of Honor winner Irwin Jacobs, an American small company made great, American right to sell products around the world and international free trade agreements is likely to be popular. It'll be fun to watch the sparks fly. You also said "End of assumptions". Then went on to make some. Namely, or viz, that the cases would be held up in court for years, etc. etc. etc. More likely the court process would be short circuited by political action by the USA. By way of trade restrictions on companies involved. For a start. Mqurice