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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 (75510)	3/15/2008 12:02:28 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197215

An interesting semantics debate going on which I am following but with no opinion yet because I have not done the research and probably won't. But the debate requires clarification, I think, since it is important to others. What does 'fully paid up' mean, exactly? Until this is determined, seems like one set of folks is talking in Polish while the other set responds in Zulu. Does 'fully paid' up in the sense NOK seems to use it mean that the chip manufacturer has paid the requisite fees and the handset maker owes nothing more, patent exhaustion, more or less, or does it mean that the fees for the fundamental patents have been fully paid per contract, nothing more is owed, and therefore the license is about the terms for the following patents as the fundamental ones can be used for free?

To: slacker711 who wrote (75510)	3/26/2008 10:53:39 AM
From: rkral	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197215

"I believe that this is a list of the five core patents that lie at the heart of Q's invention of CDMA. The expiration dates are either 17 years from issuance or 20 years from filing....whichever is later." Did the application of that rule change? At one time the "whichever is later" rule only applied for application/issue dates during a transition period, 1995 to 1998, as I recall. Older patents expired 17 years after the issue date ... period. Newer patents expired 20 years after the application date ... period. If it didn't change, the last expiration date for those five foundational patents is Apr 28, 2009.