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

To: engineer who wrote (61264)	3/21/2007 7:20:54 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197439

whyis the ASIc itself banned from importation? So long as it is not programmed, it isn't. The problem is that nobody will import a blank ASIC, then program it in the US, then export it for incorporation into a handset that will end up being imported into the US. It makes no sense economically. But even if it did make sense from a dollars and cents standpoint, once it is programmed with infringing software, a handset that incorporates the ASIC can be excluded from importation into the US, unless there is a good public interest reason to deny exclusion. And that is why the ITC proceeding is such a big deal, and why the public interest angle is so important. A workaround would make the matter moot, but Q has from everything I've seen not argued before the ITC that it yet has one.

To: engineer who wrote (61264)	3/21/2007 7:22:51 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197439

<QCOM already provided a workaround to stop the infringement> Engineer, I don't recall seeing that. In that case, the whole case should be chucked as a waste of everyone's time. As you say, the fact that somebody else can go on to breach Broadcom's patents is not argument to stop a legitimate product and software. I had better read QUALCOMM's one page synopsis. They should say they have developed another method so they won't be using Broadcom's technology, in which case no remedies should be applied as there would be no breach to remedy. Mqurice