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

To: JeffreyHF who wrote (53088)	7/6/2006 7:37:05 AM
From: quartersawyer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197011

"If" the PATENT portfolios of both Qualcomm and Nokia in WCDMA were both quantitatively and qualitatively equivalent, Nokia would not have agreed.... So what are all these moves about? Was the Nokia comment about Q as the dominant player in 1992 maybe not completely stupid? Player in what context? Patents expire. Qualcomm's case is obviously built on "more essential", i.e. more valuable, enabling, pioneering patents with a touch of magnanimity thrown in by holding the royalty rate even as patents are added to the license. The value of expiring Qualcomm patents is not likely to be matched by the later patents. Aside from Nokia 2007, Qualcomm has made reassuring comments about contract expirations. Has Qualcomm said anything good about important patent expirations?