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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting
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To: ironair who wrote (82791)1/25/2009 11:13:14 AM
From: slacker711   of 196865
 
or defensively, helpful for Q to keep out of hands of others (e.g. BRCM patent trolls)

Q likely has a broad cross license with Nortel for the development of CDMA and WCDMA chips. The OFDM standards are more problematic but it will be a few years before we see single mode devices. I would assume that those licenses would remain in place even after a transfer of control.

Unless I have a drastic misunderstanding of how Q's licenses work, I dont think that it is worth going after Nortel's IP.

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