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

To: Raglanroadie who wrote (72829)	1/1/2008 8:42:54 AM
From: quartersawyer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196827

appeal and keep it quiet. May be. But there remains the question of how we got here, now. 1998 was 10 years ago. It seems that a few years ago Broadcom Corporation got information that Qualcomm had embedded some of their property in Q's roadmap, probably in anticipation of a licensing agreement. Broadcom colluded with Q's antagonists, saw their advantage in this particular case, went for the jugular and appear to have snagged it. We shareholders looked at that stupid $20 million and hit the spitoon with a cool clink. But we were kind of speechless to learn from Q that they had offered Broadcom a free pass... and that they walked. Must be boss Nokia's directive we figured. Besides, there's new stuff and they'll never be able to prove that Q didn't use those inventions accidently.... and so on. Hey. Guess what. Q blew it, big.

To: Raglanroadie who wrote (72829)	1/1/2008 11:18:00 AM
From: BoonDoggler	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 196827

Don't know where you're getting 23 months from, but why, if Q has design arounds, would they not tell the investment community that they do, and what the status is, and where they are in the process (unless they weren't very far, and the status was not good)? Q had, IMO, a design around for the power saving patent at the time of the ruling, and took the tack of never mentioning it, instead just pleading with Bush, who was never going to do a damn thing, to overrule. It seemed they wanted to portray themselves as being out of options if Bush didn't rule their way. This made them look like whipping boys. Perhaps the proper legal approach, but a PR disaster. Q's responses are still vague, IMO, on whether they have work arounds in place for the power control IP. Here, it seems they still can appeal, I presume, but let the shareholders know what the status of design arounds are. How would keeping that information a secret benefit Q (unless it was bad news)? Q would be to keep quite publicly for at least 23 months