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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting
QCOM 159.42-1.2%3:59 PM EST
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To: A.J. Mullen who wrote (58766)1/18/2007 12:26:59 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer  Read Replies (2) of 197239
 
investors should be hoping for a loss

That seems convoluted. You don't spend a lot of time, money, and energy engineering a loss just to get the stock price down in anticipation of a major victory later on. You file a case to win, and if it doesn't look like a good, winnable case, you don't file it at all.

The case is important financially because a verdict in favor of QCOM could trigger some important licensing agreements with the likes of Apple. The case is also important from the precedent point of view, since it would establish (once again) that if a patented method is incorporated into a standard, and a company uses that standard, even modified slightly for whatever reason, the original patent still holds and requires the company to buy a license and pay royalties.

Art
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