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

To: brian h who wrote (66278)	7/19/2007 2:45:06 PM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 197028

Under the agreement, Verizon Wireless will make payments to Broadcom at a rate of $6.00 for each 1xEV-DO handset, PDA or data card sold after the effective date, subject to a maximum payment of $40 million per calendar quarter and a lifetime maximum payment of $200 million. The agreement provides Verizon a license to the six Broadcom patents currently being litigated between Broadcom and Qualcomm. Other terms and conditions of the agreement are confidential. Ouch. Verizon must be royally pissed at Qualcomm right now. Slacker

To: brian h who wrote (66278)	7/19/2007 4:04:18 PM
From: rkral	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197028

As I wrote seven days ago: "Broadcom expects patent exhaustion to apply when licensed by Qualcomm, but for their own patents they intend to license not just chipset manufacturers, and not just handset manufacturers, but service providers too? To my knowledge, no one licenses service providers. What hypocrites!!!" Message 23694673 But the idea that a service provider actually would license the Broadcom patents never crossed my mind. Is there a bright side here? Well, this VZ-BRCM license agreement certainly highlights the argument that the downstream parties were the ones harmed, the same downstream parties that Broadcom chose not to charge with infringement before the ITC.