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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Incorporated (QCOM)
QCOM 175.02+2.6%3:58 PM EST
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To: Eric L who wrote (143349)7/5/2006 4:03:46 PM
From: quartersawyer   of 152472
 
Some 40 companies have declared patents 'essential' to the 3GPP UMTS (WCDMA) technology standard.

... and of the 6872 3GPP declared essential patents at the time of the (Nokia-sponsored) Goodman and Myers study, 372 of the declared 732 patent families were shared by CDMA2000. Strangely enough 3GPP2 sees the same 372. (p.7) dawn.cs.umbc.edu
... and so on.

But in the absence of a hierarchy, why ever talk about the number of essential patents? [Whose idea was that?]

The task at hand is to figure the value of each patent, perhaps within a hierarchy of families, and the courts will test that in an assessment of whether Qualcomm's royalty% is excessive, compared to a 5% valuation of a pool of all the others.

Then, except for semantics, somebody might say "more essential" and we'll know exactly what he means --- more fundamental, more pioneering, more important, more valuable.
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