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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting
QCOM 161.39-1.9%3:59 PM EST

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To: Stock Farmer who wrote (75821)3/25/2008 4:21:03 PM
From: pyslent  Read Replies (1) of 197225
 
Speaks to the value Qualcomm places on the BRCM IP portfolio.

More accurately, it speaks to the value Qualcomm places on being able to sell chips into the US. There's no way Broadcom gets this offer without threat of injunction on Qualcomm's chips. Clearly, Qualcomm initially underestimated the value of BRCM's patents and it took the ITC for them to appreciate that.
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