Qualcomm Inc (QCOM)

[richbloem]

Eric, I agree with your answer to Immelman. And, would add this point in terms of why Qualcomm doesn't pay royalties to Interdigital. IDCC (Interdigital) doesn't have anything that Qualcomm needs at this point. It is still unproven whether or not IDCC has essential blocking patents for WCDMA. Actually, to be fair, it is unproven whether anybody has blocking patents for WCDMA as no worlds body has ever actually certified any as such. IDCC may have some IPR in TDD that Q was unable to get from other cross-licenses and if Q needs that IPR to produce a TD-SCDMA chip or a TDD version of WCDMA then, Q will do what it needs to do.

I also agree with you that Interdigital or any other company that effects this business, is our business and is not off topic.