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

To: barty who wrote (52759)	6/23/2006 2:24:44 PM
From: Dash of Reality	Respond to of 197001

exactly - its not measurable - you need an agreement for this. Check out Interdigital and how they accounted for Nokia issue. Same thing applies here. Nope, you are misguided. You do not need an agreement for something to be measurable. To be measurable you only need a reasonable means of estimating. Companies estimate revenues with far less information available to them than is available to Qualcomm in this situation. You must understand that this is required of Qualcomm, it is not an option. Their accounting firm will force them to estimate and recognize this revenue. I'm not debating this with you. I educating you. I believe the situation with Interdigital was different. Nokia did not recognize that Interdigital had a valid IP claim. Therefore, the revenue for Interdigital was not probable. There was no prior history of Nokia recognizing the validity of Interdigital's IP claim. DoR