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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting
QCOM 164.53-0.4%Jan 14 3:59 PM EST
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To: rkral who wrote (75800)3/25/2008 3:40:22 PM
From: Stock Farmer  Read Replies (1) of 197217
 
Tell me if you consider the following licensing policy to be FRANDly. I have 10 patents which have been individually established to be of identical value. I'll license any one of them for 3%; any two for 5%; any three for 6%; all of them for 7%.

That might be FRAND, but it might not be. But I don't see how the question is germain to Q's dispute with either Nokia or Broadcom.

What if you require everybody licenses all 10 patents for 70% of the price you might think of licensing all 10 individually, take it or leave it. And all but a handful accept the license. Is that FRAND? What if if you have already given that minority a licence for five, and they need a license for the other five? So everybody else gets a 30% discount, but they pay a 40% premium? Is that FRAND?

What if the other terms of your offered license include that you get exhaustive rights to all of a licensee's patents, including one who holds patents you later admit are worth more than all of yours combined? Is that FRAND?

The point I am making, perhaps giving Mr. Mullens et. al. enough indigestion to revert to shooting the messenger, is that the arguments against Qualcomm are not as flimsy as well wishers might well wish.
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