Broadcom, Verizon Wireless reach 3G phone deal

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It is a good thing Verizon Wireless decided to pay roylaty to Broadcom, and it is fair. All patent disputes should hopefully be settled between parties involved, without taking consumers or indsutry or national economy as hostages.

It was an irony that Qualcomm continued to resist paying roylaties to Broadcom, while Qualcomm had risen to a technology stardom by licensing its cutting-edge technology for royalties. And it was a farce that CTIA and the Brattle Group tried to influence the ITC decision, asking President Bush to veto it and sending delusive ex parte messages here and there.

Thanks to the web culture, you don't have to be a technology guru or pundit or a Nobel laureate or a top banana of an industry body to be able to tell what is right or wrong in technology disputes. From now on, any future patent disputes should hopefully be a bilateral issue between the patent holders and patent infringers to be either settled by themselves or ruled by the Federal court that fully understands the public safety and public interest and is authorized to make judicial review in this aspect.

The way Verizon took the lead to pay royalty to Broadcom, while AT&T and Sprint Nextel are not in a hurry to follow suit, every layman may conclude that the Broadcom vs. Qualcomm patent dispute was a tempest in a tea cup, neither a big blow to the whole industry nor a threat to national economy, as was asserted by CTIA and the Brattle Group.

Posted by: Quemann   Posted on: 07/20/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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