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

To: JGoren who wrote (61518)	3/28/2007 11:56:34 AM
From: rkral	Respond to of 197270

"BRCM didn't invent the power saving feature; the patent was bought in a bundle of stuff for $24 MILLION." With a little bit of searching I found ... "Broadcom Acquires UNOVA Patents -- December 27, 2002 UNOVA, a corporation specializing in wired and wireless automated data collection, has sold approximately 150 of its domestic and foreign patents and patent applications to Broadcom Corp. for $24 million. ... <snip>" wi-fiplanet.com Although there are only six of an original eighteen patents remaining in the Broadcom v. Qualcomm lawsuit(s), I became curious as to the assignees (original owners). The count: 6 - Broadcom Corp. 5 - Norand Corp. 7 - Intermec IP Corp. Western Atlas acquired both Intermec and Norand and later spun off UNOVA, so it appears 12 of those 18 patents were acquired in the $24 million purchase mentioned above. Three of the six remaining patents-in-suit remain unidentified by this board AFAIK.