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

To: engineer who wrote (93322)	7/20/2010 7:19:20 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 196584

Do I remember rightly that royalty rate agreements are non-transferable [so somebody can't buy Nokia and get the low royalty rate]? <perhaps Google can buy them and make real phones. > So Google would have to negotiate their own royalty rate with Qualcomm. And does Nokia actually have much to sell? They have a swarm of patents which might confer advantage to a device maker [Huawei perhaps, in co-operation with ZTE asics]. A big marketing network too. Presumably a lot of talented engineers and Geeks in general. The Symbian foundation looks flimsy although still very large. Mqurice