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

To: xihubber who wrote (48398)	11/3/2005 8:27:15 PM
From: Rich Bloem	Respond to of 196527

If you own key patents and you are selectively forcing people to buy your products through your royalty structure you may be engaging in anticompetitive practises.... I am not a lawyer, but even I know that if I own a patent, I can selectively license others for any amount I want to, UNLESS I warrant to a regulatory body that I agree to license on RAND terms. Once, I do this I am engaged in a contract and legally bound. As Q is in this case. But as you say, Q doesn't engage in such practises.