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To: Bon Scott who wrote (17052)	10/23/1998 3:42:00 PM
From: Gregg Powers	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

Bon: You have asked a very important question, since everybody selling IS-95 equipment would technically be infringing on ERICY's IPR were it to prevail (BTW QC has NO indemnification liability). Within this context it should be clear that ERICY specific pursuit of QCOM is an attempt to find some fulcrum to force a more favorable license agreement. ERICY needs A LOT of QC IPR to do W-CDMA and it needs something to trade otherwise QC can simply refuse to license it or demand its usual and customary royalty. As I have said before, ERICY is in a very difficult position...even if it were to prevail in the patent litigation, the appeals process would be tied up in courts for years. Meanwhile, QC would continue to block deployment of W-CDMA while continuing development and deployment of high data rate cdmaOne. Check, with three months to mate. Best regards, Gregg

To: Bon Scott who wrote (17052)	10/23/1998 6:51:00 PM
From: Dave	Respond to of 152472

Bon: Right now, who knows what will happen. What probably is going on right now are some very secretive, high-level talks between Qualcomm and Ericsson. What is known is that both sides have the best legal talent money can buy and are assembling their experts to support their positions. Wouldn't it be unfair business practice (which, of course, Ericy would never do) for Ericy to only go after QCOM regarding these patents? Well, Ericsson is going after Qualcomm at this time; tomorrow perhaps the world... dave