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

To: slacker711 who wrote (72853)	1/1/2008 10:20:27 AM
From: JeffreyHF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 196875

It would have been far cheaper and better for business to have bought a video coding company, as well as companies that have solutions for the other involved patents. Passing on Intermec was,perhaps, the biggest blunder in corporate history.

To: slacker711 who wrote (72853)	1/1/2008 1:25:41 PM
From: quartersawyer	Respond to of 196875

At least as a short-term solution, shutting down video encoding feature wouldnt seem like that big a deal. Can they do that? 1 “Qualcomm Parties” are hereby permanently enjoined from [among other things]...designing or modifying circuits for use in '686 Infringing Products and/or any device that includes any '686 Infringing Product [ed: as opposed to Nothing is this Permanent Injunction shall prohibit the Qualcomm Parties from engaging in modification of any ‘686 Infringing Product... so as to eliminate infringement] I also don't yet quite understand whether handsets are infringing products 6% of all revenues received by Qualcomm for sales occurring after May 29, 2007 of '686 Infringing Products