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

To: genedabber who wrote (79213)	7/26/2008 12:14:09 AM
From: David E. Taylor	Respond to of 197265

You may be right but I have no idea how to value that IP. I still think that negotiating a hefty up front cash payment from NOK was a really clever tactic by QCOM. It's a big $$ amount and it seems unlikely to me that any of NOK's competition will have any appetite for such a deal, and will prefer to stick with their existing agreement. If they want the same kind of discounted royalty that NOK seems to have gotten, then they'll have to front a cash payment for part of 15 years worth of projected royalties to get it. David