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

To: BDAZZ who wrote (61147)	3/19/2007 2:55:03 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197003

European and Japanese Patent Court Decisions ... BDAZZ, << A company X (or person) can not simply decide for itself that it is okay to take someone else's property (established through Euro and Japanese patent court decisions. >> You might want to take a look at what specific QUALCOMM patents were unsuccessfully challeged by Nokia and others in Japan, Korea and Europe: • Japanese Patent No. 2763099, the Japanese version of QUALCOMM's first CDMA patent originally filed in the United States in 1986 and granted in Japan in March 1998. • Korean Patent No. 134390 the counterpart of U.S. Patent 5,103,459 • European Patents Numbers 705512, 521859 and 666007. qualcomm.com qualcomm.com It appears that Nokia may have -- or will have -- a paid up license to some or all of those patents that were challenged in Europe, Korea, and Japan, and this accounts for the "in part" language pertaining to locense agreement expiration in QUALCOMM's most recent 10K filing with the SEC ... We have a license agreement with Nokia Corp., which in part expires on April 9, 2007. Cheers, - Eric -