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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 (75866)	3/27/2008 12:51:57 AM
From: planetsurf	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197225

You have officially jumped the shark. If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullsht?? It ALL FRAND! IF BRCM doesn't want to sign the deal Q deemed* to offer, fine. It's called negotiation. BRCM has IP that is a pain to work around. That's Q's cross to bear and they either will or won't be able to do it. After that it's all just a game of chicken within negotiations. Guess what, BRCM needs a license from Q if they want to produce chips (personally I'm not 100% convinced they will in volume before 2010). So a deal WILL be struck. BRCM will NOT be able to convince any judge that Q's offered deals are anything other than fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory.

To: Stock Farmer who wrote (75866)	3/27/2008 2:56:02 AM
From: JeffreyHF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197225

So you're saying that Qualcomm offered Zyray a royalty-free cross license, like they ultimately did for BRCM+Zyray? If that's not what you're saying, then BRCM's portfolio was afforded greater value after Zyray than was Zyray's alone. BRCM should have jumped at it, when they had the chance. All 4 patents that have been litigated thus far are capable of being worked around, and/or will fail after reexamination and/or appeal. Despite causing short term damage to Qualcomm's sales of some chips in the U.S. market (only), disruption to the industry, and temporarily increasing R&D and legal fees, BRCM has frustrated any reasonable objectives it purportedly had.It is they who need your toe surgeon. But this was never about good faith negotiations to Broadcom; rather, it was about buying business from Nokia as mercenary soldiers, and inflicting maximum harm and distraction upon Nokia's perceived threat, Qualcomm.It was about chaos, not competition. FRAND and patent issues will be resolved through negotiation and/or litigation with Nokia, and of lesser importance, Broadcom.They carry a heavy burden to prove that Qualcomm's numerous licenses with non-litigating, presumably content and sophisticated companies are illegal, and that poor Nokia signed a FRAND license in 2001 that deserves radical change 6 years later. Good luck to them and you.