Qualcomm Inc (QCOM)

[Ricardo Montalban]

I am not sure what Nokia was saying either.It may justy be the rantings of management as they are faced with the facts of the case by their lawyers. It might also refer to the length of a patent as fixed by law. Patents do expire but Qualcom has been pretty good by getting genrous long term arrangements by the contracts they impose on licencees. This gets them around expiration dates. Also they constantly file new patents which the licensee is usually licensed for by contract so as the process is a continuing one they never expire. Obviously Nokia disagrees, but they did sign previous contracts of which we are not privileged to read, I trust those contracts wrapped up Nokia for a long time.Even when the original contract expired since they acquired and used newer patents those patents continued the otherwise expired ones. CDMA ro CDMA 2000 and so on.