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

To: Clarksterh who wrote (48444)	11/4/2005 4:42:49 PM
From: slacker711	Respond to of 196493

I have to say that this is making a mountain out of mole hill (by the 6 whiners). Well, they are going after some much larger rulings....I just dont think they have much chance on them <g>. The only obvious way to call Qualcomm a monopolist is to restrict the definition of the market to WCDMA royalties (and even then, they are only likely to collect 50% of the royalies). If that is the definition, you are likely to end up with all kinds of strange monopolists. TI has a strong DRAM royalty flow....could they be a DRAM monopolist, even though they no longer make DRAM? Sandisk collects quite a bit in NAND royalties, but if somebody is going to be called a monopolist in that market I would think it would be Samsung with their 50% plus market share. Slacker