ParkerVision Inc (PRKR)

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Apple giving Qualcom the finger and blame Qualcom for 940 patent
apple no longer want to use Qualcom chips no longer. Parkervision legal team is too heavy to mess with.

see dates.. not a coincidence apple buying patent from intel. some sort of PR soon folks. look at Wall street access on the bid for the first time today and ask at $100 dollars

Apple is in the final stages of negotiations to buy the bulk of Intel's modem chip business, The Wall Street Journal reports. The Journal says the deal, valued at $1 billion or more, could be finalized in the next week. The deal would involve the transfer of talent as well as modem-related patents.

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Apple and Qualcomm settle patent fight after one day in court
But Intel has struggled to gain traction. That's partly because Qualcomm negotiated restrictive contracts with potential Intel customers that effectively blocked them from considering a second supplier. After Apple began shipping iPhones with Intel chips inside them in 2016, Qualcomm declared war on Apple, suing for patent infringement and eventually refusing to supply chips for new iPhone models—making Apple dependent on Intel for those chips.


Making its own modems could have technical benefits for Apple, allowing the company to more tightly integrate its modem chips with other iPhone components. It could also protect Apple in case an appeals court overturns the May antitrust ruling against Qualcomm. If that happens, we can expect Qualcomm to once again use aggressive licensing and litigation techniques to extract large royalty payments from customers, so it would be in Apple's interest to be able to manufacture its own wireless chips.

Correction: Intel bought Infineon's wireless division in 2011, not the whole company.


JACKSONVILLE, FL / ACCESSWIRE / July 17, 2019 / ParkerVision, Inc. (PRKR) announced today that the District Court in the Middle District of Florida issued an order denying Apple’s motion for summary judgment in ParkerVision’s pending patent litigation against Qualcomm and Apple in Jacksonville, Florida. Apple’s motion sought to limit the liability for damages solely to Qualcomm.



PARKERVISION, INC. v. QUALCOMM INC. 3

mation of sound waves—have low frequencies, and there-
fore low energy, making them difficult to transmit wire-
lessly through the air. Up-converting these frequencies to
higher-frequency signals, such as radio frequency (“RF”)
signals, allows the signal—and, critically, the information
contained therein—to be more efficiently transmitted to a
receiver. Id. col. 13, l. 53–col. 14, l. 6.

A. The ’940 Patent
ParkerVision owns the ’940 patent, titled “Method
and System for Frequency Up-Conversion.” The inven-
tions of the ’940 patent generally relate to telecommunica-
tions devices, such as cellular phones, in which low-
frequency electromagnetic signals are “up-converted” to
higher-frequency signals by various means. ’940 patent,
col. 1, ll. 23–24; id. col. 1, ll. 46–48. “Baseband” signals—
electromagnetic signals that encode the relevant infor-




Intel to Auction Off Modem IP and Patents
Tuesday June 25, 2019 1:41 pm PDT by Juli Clover
Intel is planning to auction off its portfolio of patents related to cellular wireless connectivity, according to a new report from IAM.

Intel's upcoming auction follows the company's April decision to exit the 5G smartphone modem business. Intel stopped work on 5G modem technology after Apple and Qualcomm reached a settlement and a supply agreement that will see Qualcomm providing 5G modem chips for future iPhones.


Antitrust Lawsuit Against Qualcomm Is Unjust Government Overreach
Diane Katz / @Dianeskatz / June 24, 2019 /
The company supplied chipsets and other wireless network elements for hundreds of millions of Apple iPhones from 2011 to 2017, among others. The companies’ association generated sizable profits for both, as well as protracted litigation.

The payday wasn't enough, and ParkerVision may have more plans for its patents.
JOE MULLIN - 10/25/2013, 3:45 PM

Nine-digit verdicts don't happen every day. A $173 million windfall—especially when no other revenue sources seem forthcoming—would have most investors in a small company like ParkerVision jumping up and down. But that didn't happen. "Were Investors Set Up To Fail?" asked one writer on investment site SeekingAlpha. He quotes a JP Morgan Chase analyst telling clients that just a week ago, ParkerVision was in a position to win up to $2 billion.


https://www.jacksonville.com/article/20131024/NEWS/801244357

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-17/apple-legal-surrender-is-a-blow-for-its-supply-chain-strategy

https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/4534871/parkervision-inc-v-qualcomm-incorporated/