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

To: carranza2 who wrote (28542)	11/6/2002 4:54:24 PM
From: jackmore	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196568

>>If only Q's four "heart and soul" patents are used, then under the Nokia-sponsored scheme it gets credit for only four points out of whatever total number of patents are used.<< The Nokia scheme would seem to apply only to non-Q IPR holders. The value of their IPR is considerably less than Q's - after all, they have all surrendered what they have to Q to get a Q license for W-CDMA. They all know they are contractually obligated to pay royalties to Q. What the Nokia scheme does is limit what they will pay each other. Since their IPR, collectively, is clearly worth less than Q's, a 5% cap is probably a reasonable upper limit of it's worth. And with so many minimally valued patents involved, it is probably reasonable to value them by just counting them. So, overall, the scheme may have merit. (Whether all holders of the more trivial IPR will play or not remains to be seen, of course.) It goes completely off the tracks when people like that Maunula guy think it applies to Q. Absent any of that kind of nonsense, it's a good thing, imo.