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

To: scratchmyback who wrote (54296)	8/9/2006 8:23:55 AM
From: The Reaper	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196538

I hope that there comes a day that QCOM is in a position to really put the wood to Nokia. Am I the only one thinking what a bunch of hypocrites there are over at Nokia after what they drained off of manufacturers of GSM phones over the years in royalties?

To: scratchmyback who wrote (54296)	8/9/2006 8:36:04 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 196538

The Nokia/Q battle is turning into a nasty war of attrition. Filing right before the probably unfavorable ITC decision [not to mention after Sprint's 4G decision], is really dirty pool because I doubt very seriously on first impression that the Delaware Chancery Court has the jurisdiction to order Q to do what Nokia asks it to do. Plus the issue is pending in the EU; the Delaware court is unlikely to want to step on its jurisdictional toes. My guess is that this suit will be dismissed, but not after a bunch of erroneous headlines hit the share price. The tea leaf is more like a large plasma screen now: negotiations have probably broken down and it is unlikely that Q and NOK will reach any kind of agreement. The filing of this suit is not only dirty pool, it is a shot across the bow that missed only by a few inches. Nokia is taking this action as a defensive measure to ensure there is a consolidated forum for addressing these issues and is asking the Court to enforce Qualcomm's obligation to negotiate royalties on FRAND terms. The height of hypocrisy. If Nokia thought it needed a consolidated forum, it could have filed in Delaware in the first place. If this part of the PR is not complete hogwash, it should have also stated that it is willing to drop the EU claim so that a single case in Delaware can go forward. What a bunch of asses. I hope Q puts the wood to them.

To: scratchmyback who wrote (54296)	8/16/2006 8:38:08 PM
From: voop	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196538

" Nokia announced today that it has filed a complaint against Qualcomm with the Delaware Court of Chancery in the U.S. Nokia is asking the Court to order Qualcomm to abide by its written contractual obligations to international standards setting organizations to license intellectual property essential to GSM and UMTS technology standards on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms." Let me get this straight. Been away for a week. Nokia is now admitting that QUALCOMM does indeed have licensible IPR "essential to GSM..." thereby making them potentially culpable to the claims of prior Qualcomm lawsuits their only defense is that is was not offered under FRAND guidelines so they want the court to let them off the hook Is this tacit admission that QUALCOMM has the goods on the IPR side of this fight news or have I been dozing off in class?