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

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (75858)	3/27/2008 12:19:25 AM
From: Stock Farmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197227

Nokia wants changes in their patent positions since 1992 and 2001 to be recognized, but there has been a LOT more spent on R&D and patents issued since then by QUALCOMM than was spent before Y2K. Tsk tsk tsk... you wouldn't be arguing patent proportionality in disguise while the rest of the thread is dismissing it as bogus, would you? Even if a company spends 10x on patents and generates 100x as many patents doesn't mean the subsequent portfolio isn't worth 0.1x as much. I know of a napkin sketch, made one night in a pub after a few rounds, that became the foundation for a billion dollar company. The amount of R&D subsequently spent by that company dwarfs the bar tab of that night by more than ten thousand times. But the sum total of the IPR generated since then doesn't hold a candle to that early IPR. In the beginning, Qualcomm shifted physics and moved the world. Mediaflo, OFDM et. al... merely a dim glow compared to the brilliance of CDMA. Edison never reaped a fraction of the benefit of lighting our lives after dark. Inventors never do. No sense whining like a fleet of 747's over the unfairness of it all. I wanted to point out the anti-trust implications of a cartel agreeing to be FRANDly Well, that's one way of looking at it. On a planet with one land mass and one body of water, do we have a lake within a continent or an island within an ocean. It all depends, perhaps, on perspective. "Is FRAND even a legal concept within a cartel?" Is there honor amongst thieves?