I am a IP guy, I understand and deal oatent applications better than anyone. To my knowledge, 65% of the qcom patents can be invalidated if questioned. These patents are good for patent portfolios, to build your resume, nothing else. In fact many people who got these patents are not even MS level engineers.
Overall qcom cash earning royalty business is under water, not to tell 25-40% lay off is inevitable in coming months after FTC.
All you need is one patent and one claim that stands up to scrutiny. I'm sure QC has more than 5, which is enough to uphold a licensing campaign.
"If patents are useless then why everyone was paying royalty till now?"
I assume this poster has a high school diploma. The logic illustrated above is so twisted and backward, its hard to really answer.
Lets just say this; Q claims something like 130,000 patents. As many well know, a large number (maybe more than 50%) are very weak and unlikely to stand up to a challenge.
If patents are useless then why everyone was paying royalty till now? Patents are good but apple's greed is bigger.
"patents worth nothing"
But DR says they are extraordinarily valuable.
Just as SM says $82 materially undervalues.........................ha ha ha ha
Q-bluster and Q-bloat,
Funny tale. We hired a good guy last year. He stayed just 6 months. I was kinda amazed by his comment when leaving, "you guys, in 20 years never seen a company have so many mad meetings. So inefficient. You talk yourselves in circles"
Its the age of invention guys !! Didnt you see the hashtags.
Age of hashtags and marketing speak.
Q patent folio are a bag of rocks with one in a thousand a shiny semi-precious gem.
Q is full of leftovers of ignorance. They didn’t catch any tech trend in the past years. They only stick to fake 5G dream that they created to fool themselves. As b---s---s become a habitual activity...,
You can only blame the toxic culture of this company. The whole company is driven by greed. Engineers want extra money. Lead/mgr want to take a dip. Lawyers want to keep their jobs. Execs want big numbers to intimidate the customers. The bubble is blowed up for years. Sooner or later it will bust.
Many Qcom patents were filed by ignorant people who don't read any technical paper and can't even speak English well. They file these junk ideas just to make some extra cash.
Look at Apple case in Germany. Four Q’s patents are all invalid. 65% invalid rate is quite conservative. A more practical view is may be 1 out of 10 patents are valid. The essential patents would be even far more less. Now the whole industry knows this company’s hoax of junk patents. The business model to charge royalties has no future.
And then there's times a patent is held up in court but still worthless. Remember that a simple SW push can often workaround a patent. That happened to Qualcomm recently in china and elsewhere. HW patents are more valuable if you want an injunction to work.
Remember when Motorola won in court, granted an injunction against Qualcomm, 1990s. We violated Mots out of service power saving patent. The injunction lasted as long as it took to change SW, which was not very long. Fits my definition of a useless patent.
Most qualcomm patents would never hold up in court. Shouldn't be a surprise to any of us who have read many of our peers patents. Most of us are motivated by the financial reward qualcomm pays, that and having a patent to our name.
That said, if one patent holds up as valid, that could be enough to be worth billions. Unless of course the court decides not to grant an injunction in the best interest of consumers or whether, which is always a possibility.
IBM makes more patents than anybody. Considering top talent is leaving IBM and top talent is not going to IBM, wonder how many of their patents are worthless.
If it's 65%, then that's probably the going rate industry wide. I've created patents in other companies that I knew would be impossible to monetize. I just wanted to put I have patents on my resume.
Nonsense ! You don’t win against apple and get a ban on iPhone in Germany & China with worthless patents.
Nobody will pay QUALCOMM 5 % if they are worth nothing.
Qualcomm’s legal team is one of the best , bar none. Don’t underestimate them.
Ask Hock Tan. Photo op with Trump came to nothing against QC legal.
-rad "Please give example of a useless patent."
Read the patents invalidated recently in the USA, Germany and elsewhere. There you will find many "examples of useless patents". I can't believe you asked such as question, unless your head is buried in the sand.
if FTC wins against qualcomm... it should go over Apple next. Iphone without modem is an Ipad.. Apple is a bigger rip of to consumer ... the big bully
Please give example of a useless patent.
Based on the hit rate, 65% 'invalid garbage' would be under estimate. Apple has the time and resources and it chipping away challenging them one by one.