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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread.

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To: masa who wrote (6900)	9/26/2004 1:47:49 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 12247

Masa, Nokia isn't collecting their share of IPR fees because they were not able to negotiate anything more than they are getting. The 3GSM Guild wanted a maximum of 5% on W-CDMA total royalties, but QUALCOMM insisted on their usual fee, so the others had to make do with what they could get, which I suppose wasn't much if they want to sell W-CDMA instead of CDMA2000. They certainly wouldn't be able to charge their usual 16% GSM fees. <They have almost as many essential patents in CDMA as QCOM has. And much more in GSM than QCOM> Have you heard of quality as a point of value, rather than quantity? It's not how many or how much of a thing there is, it's how valuable it is, what it can do, how much people are prepared to pay to buy it. People obviously don't value Nokia's patents very highly. Tough luck. They need to invent something people value more highly if they want to get more money. Whining that they invented a whole lot of trivia and QUALCOMM only invented a couple of things which happen to be completely crucial is silly. Actually, these days, we don't hear a lot of whining, stamping of feet, threatening, sulking, lying and general naughty misbehaviour from the hagfish guild these days. They seem to have accepted reality and be getting on with it. It's the Koreans who seem to be perpetual whiners. Mqurice

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