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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting
QCOM 152.21-0.3%Jan 29 3:59 PM EST
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To: engineer who wrote (61264)3/21/2007 7:20:54 PM
From: carranza2  Read Replies (1) of 197427
 
whyis the ASIc itself banned from importation?

So long as it is not programmed, it isn't.

The problem is that nobody will import a blank ASIC, then program it in the US, then export it for incorporation into a handset that will end up being imported into the US. It makes no sense economically. But even if it did make sense from a dollars and cents standpoint, once it is programmed with infringing software, a handset that incorporates the ASIC can be excluded from importation into the US, unless there is a good public interest reason to deny exclusion.

And that is why the ITC proceeding is such a big deal, and why the public interest angle is so important.

A workaround would make the matter moot, but Q has from everything I've seen not argued before the ITC that it yet has one.
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