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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting
QCOM 177.78-2.2%Jan 9 9:30 AM EST
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To: limtex who wrote (62769)4/18/2007 1:23:22 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (3) of 197155
 
Made in China. No royalties for QCOM on TD-SCDMA. <As Huawei has had a large amount of CDMA2000 and WCDMA equipment and terminals and reached agreements with Qualcomm on patent authorization, it will pay one percent of the domestically-sold products to Qualcomm as patent fee and six to seven percent of the exported products as patent fee, according to an official with Huawei. >

Since there won't be any exports, there won't be any royalty. They might as well make it 100% or 200% royalty on TD-SCDMA exports.

But it looks as though QUALCOMM won't get even 1%. If total royalty on TD-SCDMA is 15%, and QUALCOMM gets 2% of that, then QUALCOMM gets near-zero royalty. <Chinese companies should have advantages in the key TD- SCDMA patents. There is no latest statistics on the basic TD- SCDMA patent owners. There was some statistics showing that Nokia owns 32 percent of the patent rights, Ericsson 23 percent, Siemens 11 percent, Datang Telecom 7.3 percent, and Qualcomm 2 percent. >

It looks as though QUALCOMM is going to be successfully swindled out of their technology. King George II is going to find his expected revenue down by a few $billion a year.

Fortunately, there is a LOT of stuff Made in China which goes to the USA, so some tariffs should punish China. Japan and other countries might back the USA against intellectual property theft by China as they don't want their things stolen either.

I note that they don't mention that QCOM would get ASIC sales in lieu of intellectual property sales.

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