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

To: Stock Farmer who wrote (75639)	3/20/2008 8:51:21 PM
From: rkral	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197270

"QCOM can't manufacture a marketable chipset without BRCM IPR, but the converse is not true." BRCM most assuredly needs QCOM IPR to manufacture WCDMA chipsets, so to what chipsets do you refer? "it looks to me like NOK has a perpetual license to some pretty key technology, otherwise immediately on expiry Qualcomm would have pulled out these patents" For QCOM to file suit on patents essential to WCDMA would be inconsistent with their position that NOK, by its actions, has renewed the 2001 SULA. IOW with a WCDMA license in effect, I think QCOM is prohibited from asserting WCDMA patents ... at least until the explicit option to renew expires in Dec 2008.