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To: Dave who wrote (16688)	10/17/1998 7:54:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Dave[3]"However, the concepts of their patents was in 1991-1993. Were high bandwidth applications in a mobile environment known?" Yes, that's why QUALCOMM paid Interdigital a bunch of money. QUALCOMM chose an implementation in the bandwidth they did to fit the government bandwidth strictures of the day. There was some argument as to whether they should have gone wider. To answer more IP arguments later, QUALCOMM also, way back about 1990 foresaw the use of IP [internet protocol] in mobile and THAT is going to be big time too. Do you own any L M Ericsson shares? Mqurice

To: Dave who wrote (16688)	10/19/1998 3:50:00 PM
From: Asterisk	Respond to of 152472

You have lost me there. It appears that we are on separate tracks. I was using that MOT patent as an example of how the courts narrowly interpret inventions. At the time of conception of the MOT invention (around 1992), were integrated Phone/Pagers known within the art? The only combo phone/pager that I know of at that time was the accessory that you could buy that had a pager and phone battery combined. Maybe some of the EE history buffs can give some other examples, but I think that is it. If that is the truth then no, a combo pager/phone was not well known and even with the battery/pager you still had to have seperate service for the pager and the phone.