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To: bananawind who wrote (11404)	6/11/1998 4:08:00 PM
From: rhet0ric	Read Replies (3) of 152472

Patents and Licensing One of the things that has been worrying me a little about the IPR squabble over W-CDMA has been the example of IBM and the PC cloners. The clone industry started when Compaq and others reverse engineered the innards of PCs, using "virgin engineers" to get around IBMs patents, and soon clobbered IBM in the marketplace. If it could happen to IBM, it could happen to Qualcomm. So it was comforting to read this in Robert X. Cringely's weekly installment: "At the very time when IBM was losing money on every PC they sold, when it looked like the clonemakers were tearing Big Blue to pieces, looking at another part of the IBM balance sheet showed a billion dollars in annual income from patent licensing. This was more profit than IBM ever got from making PCs." The full text is at: pbs.org So my next question/concern is: how tough are Qualcomm's legal contracts, and how tough is their legal department? (Tougher than Intel's, I hope). rhet0ric

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