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Qualcomm is well represented b/c it's a wireless pioneer who helped define the wireless industry as we know it today. Why do you think SSO's are "highly political"? Do you have any faintest idea how a patent becomes a SEP -- or how royalties are collected? or are you even aware of the fact that Qualcomm who more or less single handledly created the CDMA standard is just a leading patent holder in recent wirelss standard.

I get that there were some aspects of Qualcomm licensing practices weren't quite kosher, but seems there are lot of folks parroting talking points from Apple who orchestrated the original lawsuit along with FTC behind the door. If you want to talk about "political power," we could talk about Apple all day.