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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting
QCOM 182.19+3.5%Dec 10 3:59 PM EST
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To: engineer who wrote (82654)1/21/2009 8:47:36 PM
From: waitwatchwander1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 196901
 
Doesn't it count that Qualcomm lost on ALL of their arguments? Call it interpretation if you want, but loosing on all counts is a sad state of affairs for a company which touts itself as being a dominate player in the field of IPR.

In the end, and even as this case progressed, it and the H.264 case were more of a time (and stock price) annoyance that anything representing serious costly damage (excluding all the legal beagle costs, of course).

RIM paid $612M to settle their noisy patent case. If one considers the payments (and pain) of all impacted parties, Broadcom's patent challenges have likely had similar costs. Both of those instances are a sad reflection on how the world of technology has transgressed. That wouldn't be the case if any in the line of patent holders behind these cases had actually brought competitive innovations to the market place in a timely manner.

It might be inevitable that someone (or something) is going to start paying attention to fixing these kinds of matters, but even then, just like the every ready bunny, they are all just likely going to morph into yet another reality. And they call it the rule of law ... ha !!
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