Qualcomm: we're flush with 4G patents

by Chris Ziegler posted May 11th 2007 at 5:35PM

It looks like any hopes that the 4G intellectual property landscape would be a little less of a Qualcomm-controlled minefield are fading fast. Thanks in part to recent acquisitions, a senior vice president pointed out in a recent interview with IDG that the company now owns over 1,000 patents pertaining to OFDM, OFDMA, and MIMO -- technologies which'll prove crucial to 4G data, regardless of the standard(s) that ultimately win out. In other words, whether the networks of tomorrow are banging LTE, UMB, or some flavor of WiMax, Qualcomm's confident that it's in a position to cash in, just as it's doing now. Sorry, Nokia.

[Via mocoNews]

Filed under: Misc

Tags: 4g, intellectual property, IntellectualProperty, ip, lte, mimo, ofdm, ofdma, patent, patents, qualcomm, umb, wimax

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