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

To: manalagi who wrote (72920)	1/2/2008 5:16:11 PM
From: Rich Bloem	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 196783

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. Mana, I disagree. There is no doubt in my mind that when a company decides to design and build something in this nebulous technology environment we are in, they do so knowing there are probably many many patents that they are (or will) stepping on. They also know that if they do step on somebody's protected technology then that company may or may not ring their door. If they do, then they can address the possibly infringement and hopefully arrive at a mutually agreeable position. There is no other way to do it imo. It would be impossible to search, analyze and make a determination on thousands and thousands of patents. If a company took this approach their product would never get off the drawing board. Much easier to build in the cost of paying X amount of unknown license fees into the product and wait for the door to ring. After all it just might not ring and if it does we can talk about it for a year or two.