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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (1079)	10/21/1998 9:19:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

I haven't checked out all the disputed patents, but a couple I looked at today were for handoff. L M Ericsson's in TDMA systems and nothing to do with soft handoff. QUALCOMM's in soft handoff. It seems L M Ericsson is claiming the word 'handoff', though I'd have to investigate more to be sure of that. QCOM: patents.ibm.com ERICY: patents.ibm.com Nokia is doing okay if they have 10% of cdmaOne sales with what was said to be an inadequate handset. My point was that they are doing extremely well, even in the absence of any significant sales in cdmaOne compared with their GSM sales. When they get churning out cdmaOne as well, Nokia will simply soar. Very bad for L M Ericsson. I'll wait and see what the court decides on QUALCOMM's patents. Meanwhile, cdmaOne will continue to develop. L M Ericsson will fall further behind in cdmaOne and GSM handsets. Given the history of IS-95, it seems absurd for ERICY to be disputing their earlier assertions that cdma couldn't and wouldn't work in mobile, then negotiating with QUALCOMM for licences, then claiming they invented the whole lot. While simultaneously demanding access to IP for 3G. It really is a joke Tero! Maurice