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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pcstel who wrote (22375)	5/8/2002 9:15:16 PM
From: Dennis Roth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197001

The entire WCDMA patent pool dilution scheme is strangely similar to what happened to Motorola's TDMA patent position. The proposed patent pool doesn't change one word of this license agreement Nokia signed July 3, 2001. qualcomm.com They pay or they don't play. Nokia can crank out press releases until their fax machine melts down. It changes nothing. No one has ever explained how this 5% would be distributed amongst all the members of the pool. All patents are not created equal. The pool members will never agree to a distribution based solely on number of patents contributed to the pool. Unless and until a fair pool income distribution formula is agreed to by the members of the pool, the patent pool idea is stillborn. 141