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

To: engineer who wrote (72897)	1/1/2008 7:55:34 PM
From: Gaffer	Respond to of 196781

...This whole thread has turned into a bunch of whiners I agree.

To: engineer who wrote (72897)	1/1/2008 9:22:41 PM
From: temco2	Respond to of 196781

Nice Post!

To: engineer who wrote (72897)	1/1/2008 11:18:34 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 196781

To a jury, that might seem like super complex photonic-electronic cyberspace engineering. Throw in a few equations and they'd be convinced. <And the patent that is at stake is the one which pertains to RFID chips. Turn the radio off when not in the presence of the radio signal. Well, RFIDE chips turn off when there is no signal, as they get radiated power to turn on. > Maybe if they thought of it like a light switch. When you leave the room, you turn it off. When you come back in, you turn it on. And in a brilliant piece of engineering genius, we'll use a motion or infra-red sensor to do the switching so you don't have to fumble in the dark or put your cup of tea down. That would definitely seem brilliant to the average person in the street. To any half-literate person, it is patently obvious [to coin a phrase]. Broadcom and Nokia can go to hell. When they come wanting a FRAND price, it starts at the court awarded royalty, is adjusted upwards for GSM bit per second per hertz royalties, compared with W-CDMA GSM Guild royalties, multiplied by the Verizon/Broadcom poxy little obvious patent royalty rate, and adjusted for the Nokia royalty rates for 3, 5, 10 patents. Anything less than a 50% royalty rate for QUALCOMM's patent wall is an absurdly cheap bargain. I favour 100% as a nice round number to make calculations easy. They should be bundled into bunches and buyers should be asked, "Would you like OFDM with that?" Mqurice

To: engineer who wrote (72897)	1/2/2008 12:20:42 AM
From: manalagi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196781

what are you talking about? BRCM did not even OWN the patents when this was designed. It does not matter whether BRCM was the patent holder at that time. The company which owns the patent was bought by BRCM. When QCOM made the design someone else owned the patent and QCOM should have known that, and if it did, QCOM had infringed at that time. Talk about your stupid \posting, this one is wihtout any thought. Huh? Read the above. Wow! When the stock is under pressure temper starts flaring. Granted that you have much more knowledge in the engineering area. For me, I just concentrate how to make money on QCOM and other stocks. 2007 has been an incredibly profitable year. May 2008 be a profitable year for everyone.