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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 (75850)	3/26/2008 2:23:18 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 197275

20 years isn't what it used to be. <The wave form patent, 5,103,459, was issued on April 7, 1992. Application date was June 25, 1990. Expiration June 25th 2010 > I can remember when 20 years was essentially forever. But the next 2 years is going to seem like essentially forever for Nokia. They have to have things sorted out by the end of this year and that leaves an 18 month gap, just for the most essential of patents, let alone the thousands of others which are germane which will apply until near enough forever. Nokia needs QUALCOMM a lot more than QUALCOMM needs Nokia. Nokia has 40% market share, 80% of industry profits and a vast and burgeoning market opportunity and a huge stack of money. Plus hordes of competitors thanks to QUALCOMM's licensing process. Any gap Nokia leaves will be immediately filled. QUALCOMM has created a highly competitive industry with the GSM Cartel's vast oligopoly profits being ripped apart since competition went feral [though Europeans are still held hostage by the Kroes Klutz Klan and the barriers to entry to other than GSM]. Prices of handsets have plunged since QUALCOMM's inventions have been developed. Thanks for those dates. Mqurice