Microe: It appears that you are correct. This is the excerp from the companies recent 8-k.
QUALCOMM has entered into royalty-bearing license agreements for
CDMA wireless applications with more than 80 major telecommunications
manufacturers, including Ericsson, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Hyundai, Intel, LGIC,
Lucent, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Nortel, Philips, Samsung, Siemens and Sony. In
addition to license fees, QUALCOMM receives on-going royalties from its
licensees as they sell CDMA products provided that at least one claim of one
of QUALCOMM's licensed patents is being utilized. Moreover, approximately 15
of QUALCOMM's license agreements cover WCDMA applications and require
manufacturers to pay on-going royalties to QUALCOMM in connection with their
sales of WCDMA products, with royalty rates equivalent to the royalties that
are payable by them for cdmaOne and cdma2000 applications. The manufacturers
that have licensed some or all of QUALCOMM's essential patents for WCDMA
applications include: Ericsson, Hitachi, LGIC, Lucent, Matsushita, Motorola,
Nortel, Philips, Samsung, Sony, Sanyo and Toshiba. QUALCOMM expects increased
total licensing and royalty revenues as third generation CDMA standards are
deployed.
However, there is some vagueness about the wording. This disclosure is not as specific as the one issued by QCOM stating emphatically that 14 companies had obtained licensing for WCDMA. This list contains only 12 names for WCDMA. Wierd. check the list from an earlier press release.
"QUALCOMM continues to expand its substantial portfolio of CDMA patents, including many patents essential to the deployment of any commercially viable CDMA mobile system. QUALCOMM has now extended many of its license agreements to cover all 3G modes. Under these agreements, a licensee pays the same royalty rate to QUALCOMM for WCDMA and cdma2000 equipment as for cdmaOne infrastructure, phones, semiconductors and other equipment. Companies with licenses for WCDMA include Samsung, Lucent, Ericsson, Nortel, Hyundai, LG, Sony, Hitachi, ALPS, Matsushita, Maxon, OKI and Philips." |
