If there is, as Limtex says, no judicial or political risk that Qualcomm will have their IPR confiscated even to the extent of some compulsory arbitration, I wonder why Qualcomm is mucking around seeking USA government support.
All that's needed is to specify the terms of a licence and go back to making cdma2000 handsets. If Ericsson or others accept the offer and cdma2000 standard, fine, otherwise, just ignore them and get on with making and selling cdma2000 like hot cakes.
This seems to me very big time and politicians can pass laws specifically for wireless technology to require patent holders to comply with certain rules legislated for the greater good. After all, from each according to their ability and to each according to their needs.
I think Qualcomm has done an excellent job of creating a patent portfolio, licensing it widely to establish market demand and patent rights in practise, soliciting USA political support to forestall any silly European legislation and negotiating with L M Ericsson, SETI and Koreans. Not to mention others. The good judgement is evidenced by Motorola buying a licence, but failing to produce their own handsets, while Nokia produced chips and handsets, others are now producing chips, others are sticking just with handsets while buying the chips from Qualcomm. The mix of approaches shows the price of the IPR was well balanced with the technical difficulty of developing products.
The big test is whether L M Ericsson perseveres with their VapourWear SETI project or caves in and buys the rights from Mighty Q. I don't believe they can invent their own multimedia CDMA without using Qualcomm's patents. L M Ericsson sure is taking a risk and their stockholders are perhaps taking fright. Then again, so are everyone's.
Life's a giggle. Whose afraid of the big bad wolf.
Chris Reeder, this is just a correction. No worries bro'. We'll soon be heading for 16000 for Feb 2002.
New Paradigm rulz ok! This is a margin cleanout - bound to happen every now and then to catch the greedy and careless.
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