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To: marginmike who wrote (15544)	9/25/1998 9:09:00 PM
From: Dave	Respond to of 152472

Mike: would like to add that Qcom has some sort of blocking patents. at least that is how it was explained to me. Is that correct? I would assume that the Q employs extremely competent lawyers. As for blocking patents, they may have the coverage for a current way to do things and, possible, future ways to do things. However, there are always holes in the coverage. I would assume that the Q has disclosed as many ways possible to do whatever they patented, however, people get patents for novel ideas. Maybe one of their competitors came up with a different idea.... My example that I use is the method of Analog to Digital conversion. I think Lucent, formerly Bell Labs, got some of the first patents on this. However, they are not the only ones to patent the method of Analog to Digital Conversion. circumventing patents If one is to circumvent a patent by getting a patent on another novel method, then most likely that is cheaper. However, slugging it out in court is quite costly. dave