Qualcomm Inc (QCOM)

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from bdazz on the moderated:

Word from QCOM investor relations to my question about today's Korea bull. I linked the story and this was the QCOM reply:

>>These reports are incorrect. Per the contracts we cannot comment on the specific details of our agreements with our licensees; however, we can say that the royalty obligations will continue beyond the referenced date of August 2006. There is no date on which a license under all of QUALCOMM's patents becomes royalty free. In addition, QUALCOMM's patent portfolio continues to grow with thousands of new worldwide filings each year.

Remember too QUALCOMM has been very active in the standards bodies and in evolving and developing improvements to wireless technology and our essential and non-essential patent portfolio. Our patent portfolio has grown enormously since we first started licensing and today includes thousands of issued patents around the world. Further, we have, for the most part, extended our agreements with licensees to include our later patents that apply to the newer standards, such as CDMA2000 1X, 1xEV-DO, WCDMA/UMTS, HSDPA, etc<<

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