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

To: pyslent who wrote (144677)	8/30/2006 11:34:28 PM
From: matherandlowell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

"but I echo Slacker's statement in that I find it hard to believe that Qualcomm could be unaware that their IPR was being violated by the then emerging GPRS/ EDGE standards." Why is this so hard to believe? Paul Jacobs said that they were busy trying to make their own standards work. Why would they have been analyzing a standard to which they felt they had made no contribution? Of course, the possibility exists that they may have not known why the new GPRS/EDGE worked so well but suspected that some of their IP might be involved. Maybe they didn't make an aggressive effort to find out exactly what was involved until the standard had been ratified and then built out. But once discovered (well shucks, what a surprise!), QCOM would actually be in a better negotiating position for the sh*t fight in which they are now engaged. QCOM had no obligation to look for stolen IP. They didn't know it had been stolen. Discovery of a crime can sometimes take a little bit of time. j.