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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (22264)	1/31/1999 12:26:00 AM
From: kitterykid	Respond to of 152472

Regarding patents and IPR, I spoke with QCOM last week on that very subject. They have over 620 patents. Some of the earlier ones (from around 1989) do expire in 2001 and 2002 but most were/are/have been/will be upgraded and substantially protected. They are particularly active with IS-95 HDR patents right now. Hopefully those will be very important when W-CDMA goes away and CDMA 2000 rules the world!!

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (22264)	2/1/1999 5:03:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

More Eudora - for sale? More murmerings about Eudora in trouble: 209.1.112.252 A person close to Qualcomm said the Eudora division had once turned a modest profit for the company, but since Eudora purchased troubled Now Utilities in August 1998, the division has hemorrhaged cash. Qualcomm tried to unload Eudora on Infoseek last year, but the plans fell through. Jeff Beckley, a lead developer for Eudora, said changes were afoot in the division. "We're going to be announcing stuff sooner or later," Beckley said, "but nothing we can talk about yet." The changes are more likely to affect Eudora's tangential products like calendar software, rather than its namesake email client, Beckley said. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Hopefully it is a refocus effort onto WWeb related email/financial/communications software rather than behemoth software for PCs sitting on desks. Mqurice