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To: Michael Allard who wrote (143000)6/23/2006 12:07:25 PM
From: Rob S.  Read Replies (1) of 152472
 
Patent/IPR enforcement in the huge field of wireless communications is never going to be easy. Qualcomm owns several core patents on CDMA that are necessary to make it into a wide area cellular communications system.. it would not be possible to do cellular using CDMA without their technology. But that had to be tested in the courts in several regions of the world and fought repeatedly within trade groups to enforce specific royalty rate structures.

Several companies make no bones about the fact that they don't like to pay royalties to Qualcomm for CDMA/WCDMA. Part of the contention is that they have developed some of the technology used in current systems. But the courts have consistently upheld the fundamental nature of Qualcomm's IPR portfolio as it relates to CDMA wireless.

However, the industry will shift to MIMO-OFDMA based technologies over the next several years. MIMO-OFDMA will be the 'next after the next' cellular wireless evolution that follows HSUPA. This is a fundamental shift in technology platforms. Qualcomm has acquired Flarion and has rapidly applied for many patents in the field including in areas such as H-ARQ, MIMO-OFDM, and OFDMA. Qualcomm was not the first to develop OFDM or MIMO/MAS based technologies. The question becomes "Does Qualcomm have similarly crucial patents in these emerging areas of technology as they developed in CDMA?" What 'road blacks' has Qualcomm surmounted that were critical to OFDM and related emerging technologies being adopted? Is that as important and as commanding of a position as they have held in the field of CDMA/WCDMA?
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