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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Incorporated (QCOM)
QCOM 163.32+2.3%Nov 21 3:59 PM EST
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To: Dave who wrote (16355)10/12/1998 7:01:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 152472
 
Dave, here's what you wrote and you did say that both QUALCOMM and L M Ericsson are all talk in regard to their IPR. Check out the brief statement below.
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To: DaveMG (16331 )
From: Dave Monday, Oct 12 1998 9:45AM ET
Reply # of 16357

DaveMG:

Obviously Dr J thinks he's got the goods or he wouldn't be taking such hard line.

I wouldn't go that far. Many, many companies are alot of talk, but settle either before a lawsuit is filed or on the courthouse steps. As of right now, both the Q and Ericy et al. are all talk in regards to their IPR.

Let's face it, going to court is going to be extremely expensive for the Q and whoever it sues. In litigation, every hour is billable and all parties want the best legal talent money can buy.

dave
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Dave, 1% of future revenues will be hundreds of millions of dollars. I was pointing out how little the cost of the lawyers to defend a very strong position will be compared with the value they will defend. And the relative absurdity for L M Ericsson to spend a fortune on a weak or non-existent position.

Yes, you can quote me on a decade. QUALCOMM first sold shares in the late 1980s to Airtouch and others with the express purpose of developing CDMA in cellphones. Motorola bought licences. So did Nokia in the early 1990s. QUALCOMM and Loral formed Globalstar in the late 1980s with the intention of using cdma by QUALCOMM.

QUALCOMM was formed in 1986 with the express purpose of keeping Irwin and pals entertained and developing CDMA in cellphones, after they had been instrumental in developing TDMA. They had Omnitracs as a revenue source and contract research too, but needed heaps more money, so sold shares and then licences.

I think a decade is a reasonably accurate description.

I think QUALCOMM will win the IPR debate and it will not cost much at all. L M Ericsson like any rooster sizing up the opposition gives in before receiving too much damage when the initial skirmishes and displays suggest a likely loss.

Mqurice

$80 31 October [or 30 November!].
Don't forget Dow 16000 Feb 2002.
Breathing again after the debacle of the past week or two.

PS: "I was thinking about a Motorolla inventor by the name of Ira Jacobs". That's 'Motorola'. Or Rotomola according to some here.
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