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

To: carranza2 who wrote (61162)	3/19/2007 7:22:41 PM
From: slacker711	Respond to of 197015

Since these patents are expiring, it makes sense to mark the license as "paid" for these patents and not expect to be paid for them in the future. However, these core patents have been built upon substantially by Q. I doubt seriously that the new stuff expires any time soon. It is no doubt as essential as the old patents which are expiring. No doubt that Q will continue to have essential patents in all forms of CDMA. However, those five patents are widely recognised as the building blocks for CDMA (no mobile CDMA system could be built without them) and if Q is ever in front of a jury attempting to justify their 5% royalty rate, those patents would likely come in handy. As you say though, these patents are expiring so Qualcomm was bound to face the same situation regardless. Slacker