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

To: thinkclear who wrote (68055)	8/20/2007 7:42:59 PM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 197444

A Correction TC, << Thorough as usual. However, In you chronology between 1994 and '96 I believe that you got a few of your dates wrong by 10 years. >> You are absolutely correct. My bad. Wrong decade. Wrong century. Thank you. The following paragraph is corrected ... AirTouch, in QUALCOMM's back yard, told their investors that they planned to have their network commercial in 1997 They didn't. They claimed a commercial launch in May 1996 but by Q3 2006 end they had a few thousand activated subscribers, less than APC Sprint Spectrum activated in store and OTA in its 1st day of operation on its GSM network 10 months earlier. << As far as the blatant disrespect for the IPR of others is concerned, is NOK above reproach in this regard? >> I'm not sure that they are. I will however expand on my QUALCOMM's "blatant disrespect for the IPR of others" as it relates to the FRAND/RAND based IPR Policy of ETSI (or othe SSO/SDOs) in a seperate post back to you. If you examine Broadcom's initial filings against QUALCOMM you'll see some references to what I mean. If you read David Dull's statement to the FTC/DOJ hearings you'll see a few more. Message 23368293 << As one of the past CTOs I worked for said; "Patents are weapons, not shields." >> Evidently your corporation had an active and offensive IPR posture, rather than a passive and defensive IPR posture. Transitioning from passive and defensive, to active and offensive (as Nokia did in stages) is difficult. Some executives of some corporations, can't and won't make the transition. It requires a completely different mental set. Best, - Eric -