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Technology Stocks : The New QUALCOMM - Coming Into Buy Range
QCOM 177.78-2.2%Jan 9 9:30 AM EST
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To: pyslent who wrote (873)8/15/2007 1:08:53 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (2) of 9132
 
Disclosure only gets the patents of those attending. There are LOTs of patents owned by people not attending and therefore not disclosing.

It seems obvious that those developing the standards should not depend only on those dabbling in the standard.

If QUALCOMM had not bothered attending at all, then they could have "ambushed" the standard.

It is obvious that those developing a standard should ensure that they have the intellectual property lined up. They spend a lot of time on the arcane details of the standard. They should also spend some time on digging through the relevant patents to ensure they know what's going in.

Patents are not something requiring disclosure. They can't be "concealed" as Judge Brewster calls it. They are public documents, available at the click of a keyboard in cyberspace.

QUALCOMM even has a patent wall, open for people to see and proudly displayed. There is disclosure for you. No doubt that doesn't count in Judge Brewster's book. It shows QUALCOMM's attitude to patents. QUALCOMM has not got them stored in nuclear-powered submarines, deep in the ocean, lurking, waiting to launch in suprise patent ambush rocket attacks which is what Judge Brewster seems to imagine.

Depending on disclosure by those attending the meetings and being read the riot act about FRANDliness is dopey. By merely attending, one is ipso facto forced into FRANDliness. It seems a better idea to avoid attending any standards bodies and just develop one's own technology in partnership with like-minded people who might have synergistic intellectual property, coming to legal agreements with them for licensing, rather than the wishy-washy approach of socialist, monopolistic, anti-competitive, price-fixing, extorquerationate cartel standards.

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