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

To: saukriver who wrote (22517)	5/11/2002 1:28:22 PM
From: Dennis Roth	Respond to of 197013

I concur that a collective agreement to set a cap on prices should run into U.S. anti-trust problems were it not for the fact that each company (other than NOK) might contribute technology to the pool from which they would draw. What makes the idea unworkable is that some like Ericsson and Qualcomm are being asked to contribute property to the pool more valuable than what they might draw out of it. Each potential contributer has to ask, "What's in it for me?" For those with the most valuable essential patents, staying out of the pool is more appealing than joining. The GSM patent pool arose out of a set of unique historical and political circumstances that can't be repeated now for UMTS. If Nokia had suggested 15% instead of 5% the idea might have had more appeal. 5% is just too small to leave everyone satisfied. 138