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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting
QCOM 172.24+0.9%12:52 PM EST
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To: engineer who wrote (72897)1/1/2008 11:18:34 PM
From: Maurice Winn   of 196809
 
To a jury, that might seem like super complex photonic-electronic cyberspace engineering. Throw in a few equations and they'd be convinced. <And the patent that is at stake is the one which pertains to RFID chips. Turn the radio off when not in the presence of the radio signal. Well, RFIDE chips turn off when there is no signal, as they get radiated power to turn on. >

Maybe if they thought of it like a light switch. When you leave the room, you turn it off. When you come back in, you turn it on. And in a brilliant piece of engineering genius, we'll use a motion or infra-red sensor to do the switching so you don't have to fumble in the dark or put your cup of tea down. That would definitely seem brilliant to the average person in the street. To any half-literate person, it is patently obvious [to coin a phrase].

Broadcom and Nokia can go to hell. When they come wanting a FRAND price, it starts at the court awarded royalty, is adjusted upwards for GSM bit per second per hertz royalties, compared with W-CDMA GSM Guild royalties, multiplied by the Verizon/Broadcom poxy little obvious patent royalty rate, and adjusted for the Nokia royalty rates for 3, 5, 10 patents. Anything less than a 50% royalty rate for QUALCOMM's patent wall is an absurdly cheap bargain. I favour 100% as a nice round number to make calculations easy.

They should be bundled into bunches and buyers should be asked, "Would you like OFDM with that?"

Mqurice
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