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

To: Rich Bloem who wrote (62989)	4/22/2007 9:41:17 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196978

But what if QCOM doesn't really believe they are not using Nokia patents, but just says they aren't for show? What if they really believe they are using Nokia's patents. That would mean, no matter what they say for window dressing, they are DELIBERATELY infringing on Nokia's patents. Which means, to me, dirty hands, maybe even filthy [if that's also legal jargon], no redress, stains on the blue dress, turfed out of court, no enforcement against Nokia, who will with impunity get to use QCOM patents, same as QCOM tried to get done against Texas Instruments, but lost because the breach of confidentiality in the contract wasn't material [if I remember the details correctly] or there was no consequence specified or some such. Nokia is collecting about 60% of the whole handset industry's profits. I think they can afford to pay the same as the smaller companies, who also have some intellectual property to trade. A 1% royalty reduction from 3% to 2% or 4% to 3% is an enormous hit to the bottom line. I'd rather have deadlock and no Nokia as a customer and go out of the W-CDMA business. And watch Nokia go back to making gumboots; no more cellphone business for them and good riddance. They could sell their brand to Sanyo, and their patents and other assets in cyberphone manufacture. Mqurice