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

To: slacker711 who wrote (56438)	10/30/2006 9:21:37 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196804

We'll have to see how things turn out. The TI case involved royalty rate info which was kinda/sorta known already. And Q lost it only because of a rare legal error in the drafting of the contract. Otherwise, I think it would have prevailed. The case against BRCM really is quite different.

To: slacker711 who wrote (56438)	10/30/2006 8:20:53 PM
From: Clarksterh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196804

unless Q can prove that Broadcom used its source code in the development of its WEDGE/HEDGE products. Perhaps engineer or Clark could comment on the likelihood of that happening and proving it.... I agree that it is very unlikely Qualcomm can prove anything substantive (at least without an insider or shear stupidity on the part of Broadcom). This is despite the fact that if Broadcom has had the code for a year or more there is a good chance they incorporated portions verbatim - but the problem is that once it is compiled it is virtually impossible to tell what the source was. Clark