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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting
QCOM 175.91-0.1%10:37 AM EST
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To: Dash of Reality who wrote (62450)4/11/2007 8:55:51 PM
From: DaYooper  Read Replies (1) of 196976
 
RE: I just hope that both companies decide to negotiate rather than litigate.

We can hope all we want but this showdown has been many years in the making. The wideband cdma strategy was devised with the exact intention of getting to this point. QCOM and IJ have stated clearly all these years that wcdma does require Q's intellectual property which they will license at the same low and frand rate -- one rate for all the patents regardless how many you choose to utilize.

I'd be very surprised if after all these years of devising the end around strategy NOK agrees to anything remotely close to the full rate until a third party explains to NOK that wcdma is in fact cdma and they need to license that IP at the frand rate agreed to by 60 other companies including NOK in 2001. I'm sure all NOK's efforts will garner them a small return royalty from Q -- but NOK is now arguing it should not be small.
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