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

To: rkral who wrote (67920)	8/19/2007 1:14:19 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 197275

rkral--The continuation patent and the parent patent would instead be owned by one company. In effect, KSR owned the only patent (the original) that counted. KSR did not infringe the Teleflex add-on patent because, it turned out, the Teleflex patent was invalid because it was "obvious." Many of the patents held by Nokia and others in regard to WCDMA, OFDMA, and even HSPDA may now be suspect because they cite or involve "prior art" (the legal term), much of which originated with QUALCOMM or companies like Flarion, which QUALCOMM purchased. The new criterion of being "non-obvious" will effectively protect QCOM and adversely impact the so called late comers who tried to build on the essential patents owned by QUALCOMM. Art