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

To: Eric L who wrote (42282)	9/15/2004 8:40:46 PM
From: Clarksterh	Respond to of 197200

Some Qualcomm patents still apply because you are using CDMA technology in the first layer. If you pick up a few tricks from GSM's Layer 1 and put it into CDMA's Layer 1m, then you get TD-SCDMA that allows you to bypass Qualcomm patents. I'd like to see them do the fast power control as needed for CDMA without Qualcomm patents. Other patents are equally problematic. As for the words, of course they are going to assert that, just as Ericsson asserted (incorrectly) that WCDMA didn't need Q IP. No surprise. Clark

To: Eric L who wrote (42282)	9/15/2004 11:43:39 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 197200

<UMTS (3G) is not as patent-friendly as GSM is. > Blah blah blah.... 16% for GSM 5% for CDMA. What does "patent-friendly" mean in Hindi? I suppose the GSM patents earn more than CDMA patents for the intellectual property owners, so, they are more "friendly" to the patent holders. Mq