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by lnsru
2521 days ago
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I am really glad, these engineers kept their jobs. More interesting is that Munich has similar sized offices of Apple and Qualcomm now. Their topics’s aren’t really overlapping, but the roots of both companies lie in Siemens. Maybe this also hinders their global success. |
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Qualcomm bought some BenQ Mobile (ex-Siemens) patents from HP (Palm), but according to Jobs, these were rather worthless:
Just for the record, when Siemens sold their handset business to BenQ they didn’t sell them their essential patents but rather just gave them a license. The patents they did sell to BenQ are not that great. We looked at them ourselves when they were for sale. I guess you guys felt differently and bought them. We are not concerned about them at all. [1]
Maybe this is what you were thinking about? If there is more, I’d be glad to hear about it!
[1] http://www.project-disco.org/competition/012313-patent-bully...