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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Incorporated (QCOM) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Q8tfreebe who wrote (144495)	8/25/2006 8:33:17 AM
From: rkral	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 152472

*re: "is is reasonable for QCOM to license its GPRS/EDGE technology free of charge to Nokia ..."* The larger issue is that QCOM's GSM/GPRS/EDGE IPR appears not to be licensed at all for Nokia's GSM/GPRS/EDGE "stand-alone" devices, i.e., devices without a CDMA/WCDMA/TD-SCDMA mode. re: "then the issue is what is fair, reasonable and non discriminatory.....? " Exactly, and jackmore put it best when he wrote ... "Here's the heart of the issue: To Q, FRANDly means 5%; to Nokia, FRANDly means 0%." BTW, if Qualcomm filed the patent infringement suit against Nokia in response to Nokia filing an "anti-competitive conduct" complaint with the EC, Qualcomm had the suit ready and waiting ... should a need arise. The filing dates were 10-28-2006 and 11-04-2006, respectively.