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

To: Clarksterh who wrote (57682)	12/12/2006 8:07:13 PM
From: waitwatchwander	Respond to of 197254

That's fine for the future. What happens now? It sounds to me like your saying the royalty pie will be capped at 5% (or 6%) and the pie gets re-cut based on some form of patent value as of the date of the last statement of each standard. Would you envision the overall royalty rate ever being adjusted? How do they handle the differing time periods for the patents and determine the time left in the life of the standard? Fixing a future review (and update) date could work. It would allow cutting back patent life for "standards" to the review date. What about the GSM/GPS/EDGE patents? Wouldn't those royalties arrangements also need to be reworked? Qualcomm's packaging approach sure seems to be the simpler way. They just need to figure out how to accommodate the other patent holders with better cross licensing arrangements.