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To: jpbrody who wrote (18405)	11/16/1998 9:55:00 PM
From: JGoren	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

I don't understand exactly what you are saying about the WSJ article. Please clarify DoMoCo. 1500 patents sounds very high; that sounds more like the total number of patent claims Qcom might have filed! Maybe, this is more Ericy disinformation to frighten the industry--that somehow Qcom is akin to the "big, bad, monopolistic Mfst."

To: jpbrody who wrote (18405)	11/16/1998 10:34:00 PM
From: Ramus	Respond to of 152472

jp, You must have missed my earlier post on the Ntt DoCoMo proposal for W-CDMA. I mentioned that Ericsson was conspicuous by their absence from this list of companies who claim patents essential to W-CDMA. At least as of June 1998, apparently Ericsson had not claimed to Ntt DoCoMo that they held essential IPR to W-CDMA. There were a total of 1581 patents listed from Qualcomm. The list showed each patent in each country that it had been granted. For instance lets say Qualcomm has patents for 15 things but they patent this same 15 things in 100 countries....therefore 1500 patents. It's not really as simple as this though. Walt