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

To: pyslent who wrote (76356)	4/16/2008 12:21:18 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Respond to of 196972

"We have never believed that Nokia's patents are applicable to our products." This is a careful way of saying, "Even though we have a licensing agreement with Nokia, our current chipsets and related products don't (in our opinion) use any Nokia patents." That way Q can argue that it doesn't really matter if a court decides the agreement between them and Nokia is no longer in force. This is debatable, but I would hope true on the basis of several factors: QCOM designs don't use Nokia IP, even though Nokia might try to argue they do. Nokia IP is suspect because most of it is follow on to basic patents previously obtained by QCOM. The recent Supreme Court decision in the KSR case would appear to buttress such an argument, making it more difficult for Nokia, Broadcom, and other latecomers to obtain valid patents on CDMA related inventions. Art