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

To: quartersawyer who wrote (53239)	7/6/2006 3:26:54 PM
From: scratchmyback	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 197012

<<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.>> This is a most interesting issue. Isn't it so that patents expire in 16 years? If that is true, doesn't it mean that by 2008 ALL the patents Qualcomm had in 1992, will be expired?! Looking from Nokia's point of view, things may have changed a lot?! Samim had some comments about Qualcomm's early 1990's patents having longer expiry time, but it would be nice to have some further comments on that case.