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

To: ralphty who wrote (62970)	4/22/2007 12:32:47 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196972

even if Qualcomm were awarded treble damages it would be pocket change to Nokia Two points: The award would include not only infringing CDMA patents but any portion of those patent claims used with GSM/GPRS/EDGE equipment. You may be correct that PREVIOUS infringements by Nokia may have been fairly insignificant, but remember that the motivation behind the present strategy taken by Nokia relates to the increasing demand for WCDMA. After all, it is now clear that GSM spectrum in Europe is too limited to accommodate total demand for wireless, especially that part aimed at data communications. Most of the growth of wireless in Europe and other wireless communities using GSM is going to occur by adding WCDMA to handsets. Every WCDMA based handset will probably have to use QCOM patents, at least for the next three or four years, until some of the basic patents have expired. It's the royalties that Nokia will owe for WCDMA handsets that worries Nokia, and they are doing their best to minimize the inevitable (I repeat, inevitable) royalties they'll have to pay. And $20 million up front won't cover the bill. Furthermore, even if Nokia decides to push service providers away from WCDMA into WiMAX, they still encounter the same royalty problem with QCOM, since QCOM also has the major OFDM and related patents used with WiMAX. Checkmate Nokia. Art

To: ralphty who wrote (62970)	4/22/2007 4:10:49 PM
From: engineer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196972

1. you have no clue 2,. You act like a 4th grader. 3. You seem to be another MASA in the making, just haven't figure out how to post to yourself yet. I would guess that 50% of America would be fairly upset with your last post, but then you must be so proud, as should you mother be. I don;t really think we need your stuff here. But hey 1st amendment stuff right? That was where th Va stuff went wrong. guy mistook 1st amendment and 4th amendement and got it all wrong. He thought that someone had stomped his 1st, so he pushed the 4th. If your so volitile and upset that my mentioning the 4th amendment that it sends you into writing like the Korean guy in Virginia, then perhpas I don't just need to report you to SI BOB, but perhaps the FBI. We had a guy on this thread in 1999 who started alot of strange stuff just like you, Jim willie. He started telling MQ that he would meet him at the Shareholders meeting, "hanging heavey to the left" and then went on to tell how he was good with guns. In that case we DID notify the police and they DID follow up. Do you even know the rules for SI, not just this thread?