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To: Michael Allard who wrote (17893)	11/6/1998 10:29:00 AM
From: JGoren	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

L.M. Ericsson announced today that it had hired Joe Jamail to file suit in a Texas state, district court in Houston, Texas against Microsoft and Qualcomm for patent infringement and anti-trust violations. The suit will allege that Microsoft Windows infringes on a patent filed by Ericsson last week in which Ericsson claims it has a blocking patent on wireless paging, which effectively prohibits the new Microsoft-Qualcomm joint venture (Comsoft) from engaging in wireless data services. Ericsson also will allege that the communications software add-on to Windows 98 infringes a 1935 patent. An Ericsson spokesman, said, "We beleive that Microsoft and Qualcomm have secretly been working together for years, in monopolistic combination with one another, to keep Ericsson out of the emerging wireless data market, which Ericsson foresaw more than a decade ago." The spokesman contined, "These monopolists want to prevent Ericsson from commercially exploiting a market which Ericsson invented more than a decade ago." Ericsson denied that its suit had anything to do with its Symbian joint venture, restating that it had no concern over the Comsoft venture and that the reason it had previously expressed such lack of concern was that Comsoft was offerning nothing new. When a reporter from the San Diego Union-Tribune asked the spokesman, "Aren't your statements contradictory on their face?" The spokesman replied that he could not understand the question because of his limited understanding of the English language. Sources who checked the 1935 patent report that the patent concerns what was thought to be an abandoned algebraic equation for manufacturing vacumn tubes. (in the interest of preventing panic, the foregoing is a joke)