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To: Michael P. Michaud who wrote (31069)	5/26/1999 1:50:00 PM
From: marginmike	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Q gets paid for WCDMA usage by Ericy. Therfore they are admiting that WCDMA and any form of CDMA needs certain Qcom patents.

To: Michael P. Michaud who wrote (31069)	5/26/1999 2:03:00 PM
From: D.J.Smyth	Respond to of 152472

<<There have been some on this thread that have expressed that Q's patents cover WCDMA technology, but your post seems to contradict that view?? If Q does not own WCDMA patents, who does??>> certain Q patents do cover WCDMA through ERICY agreement; Q has requested what seems to be the biggest chuck of the IPR pie relative to 3g and some believe (contend on the committes) they'll may get it

To: Michael P. Michaud who wrote (31069)	5/26/1999 2:15:00 PM
From: DanD	Respond to of 152472

Michael, As I said it is unclear weather WCDMA fits either category I mentioned. It did start out as an attempt to end run CDMA to 3G and what it has become is something else that is not a replacement. Dan D

To: Michael P. Michaud who wrote (31069)	5/26/1999 2:25:00 PM
From: quidditch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Michael: Q! has the right to receive royalties on all flavors of CDMA, based on essential and other patents in its portfolio. michael piturro said it best so far. E has certain patent rights which entitle it, according to Q!, to a small royalty based on some, probably, peripheral IPR. The remaining IPR question is to what extent standards bodies, like ITU, ETSI, UMTA and its IPR committee, will be successful in jerryrigging standards and specs to favor certain carriers and equipment manufacturers, like E/GSM to preserve the fiction of regional (read Euroland) primacy of legacy technology. Regards. Steven