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To: alpine_climber who wrote (72690)	4/3/2011 12:31:17 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217593

Here's the Qualcomm royalty position. Nokia managed to negotiate measly royalties from Qualcomm, but has been losing market share to Apple and others who pay the full standard royalty rate which I have always considered was measly, though so-called experts have considered are too high and not in the slightest measly. You can find posts from me explaining that Nokia's patent swap and sale agreement with Qualcomm could turn out to be a great deal for Qualcomm if Nokia lost a lot of market share, hopefully all of it, to Apple and others paying real royalties. That has turned out to be the case. Woohoo! and Qualcomm got use of all Nokia's patents as well as being paid $billions up front. Qualcomm also got direct ownership of a swag of patents. A similar deal was done with Broadcom, though more favourably in Broadcom's favour resulting from an unfortunate legal decision stemming from an ill-judged "no downside" case brought by Qualcomm. What did your "experts" tell you is the royalty rate paid by Foxconn/Apple for iPads and iPhones using Qualcomm technology? "Measly" to me would include 31% but some people think even 5% is extorquerationately unFRANDly. Mqurice