To: mmeggs who wrote (16496 ) 10/14/1998 11:04:00 PM From: Dave Read Replies (1) | Respond to
mmeggs: there is a very real possibility of such an injunction against anyone attempting to implement a W-CDMA system. extremely hard to prove. The Q would have to prove at the beginning of the trial that they (the Q) are going to win. Very difficult and highly unlikely. The Q wants pretty broad coverage on their patents. Remember, the Q was sued by another company which interpretted their patents pretty broadly and remember the result. At this time, the court system is interpretting claims pretty narrowly. Furthermore, there is a file wrapper estoppel on the case. That means, whoever sues, or is sued by, the Q can look at the history of the application and the arguments the Q's attorney made to the office to get the patent granted. Who knows, that attorney may have mentioned that the patent was granted in only a specified bandwidth. Stranger things have happened.Q will probably not be limited or prohibited from building or licensing 3g systems.....Asia, (parts), North America, South America, Africa, the Middle East, India, Australia, New Zealand As far as cost goes, from what I have read, the upgrade from IS-95 to cdma2000 would be much, much, cheaper than a GSM or TDMA upgrade to W-CDMA due to the nature of the air interface for each of the 2g systems.
