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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (17237)	10/27/1998 6:52:00 AM
From: Dave	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

Maurice: L M Ericsson doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of successfully arguing that they invented soft handoff for CDMA in mobile, or multipath signal collection, or power control or much else in the CDMA world. What about these two patents; 5,101,501 assigned to Qualcomm which was filed on 7 November 1989 and 5,109,528 assigned to Ericsson which has an effective filing of 14 June 1988. Both teach methods of Handoff. Although the US is first to invent, Qualcomm will have difficulty proving that they reduced to practice and then decided to file for a patent more than 1 year later. Dave suggests that the legal systems operate on flippism Please post the link where I have said that. Of course in grey areas there might be doubt, but I have read the patents, read Dave's stuff and all the rest and can't see any reasonable doubt. I did give some reasonable doubt. I merely stated that Qualcomm's first patents may not be not enabling for high-bandwidth applications. dave