And how does that change the algorithms, the basic construction technologies. Tell me which military electronic technologies that isn't made of silicon or silicon on copper? Tell how why and how should temperature requirements force changes in the architecture? Address the question please, because your reply says nothing.
Somehow the idea that China can't do a decent datalink to a plane when they have accomplished all sorts of datalinks to satellites, space probes and spacecraft, all of whom under harsh environments and motion stress, is all beyond me.
Look. For 3G stations and handsets, hundreds of patents have to be made from all sorts of different companies. Did you check the 3G license page? Tell me what is the proportion of Qualcomm's patents to well over 500 basic patents alone, not to mention another equal amount for supporting patents.
Sigh. Qualcomm buys a company that was intended to do wireless streaming of movies, then somehow uses that company's patents to make a claim on OFDM?
Companies are using patents for positional stakes. Maybe some of them are true innovations but others are just a repeat of what others are also trying to do. You're using patents to make a claim "I did it first" which means nothing with regards to the capabilities of other companies to reach that goal. And quite frankly if other companies patented the same idea on other countries, Qualcomm would not be able to enforce its royalty claims on those other countries.
The fact is all these companies from Docomo to Siemens to Ericsson to Nokia could have and would have perfectly developed 3G W-CDMA without Qualcomm. In fact, its possible each and every company could have developed the technologies independently but instead, you got a situation where companies end up suing each other where the sets of intellectual properties would intersect with each other. Then Qualcomm took it to itself to charge royalties as other companies have more or less settled and shared the royalties. Then Qualcomm itself gets sued by Broadcomm.
Another example of the nonsense going on is so called "multitouch" technology Apple claims for its iPhone. Just because Apple did it, does not mean that others cannot accomplish the same thing. But now, you use the patent process to prevent others from incorporating the same feature on their own handsets.
Your entire point of bringing up Qualcomm is to suggest without Qualcomm, no one could have developed 3G technology. That's nonsense. Everyone could have developed it independently sooner or later. The patents is about the sooner guys trying to force the later guys to pay up for the disadvantage of being late and has nothing to do with development or technological capability.
Huawei's and ZTE's patent staking is of the same idea but they're using it to stake even future technologies from 4G to beyond. There is no point in reinventing 2G and 3G. The point of all those few thousand patents is to stake 4G so they don't have to pay royalties, or pay less royalties, or have others pay them for royalties or cross license them with other patents.
And you're missing the point too. Its an American jet. Tell me if it uses Russian engines or Japanese developed flight control systems either.
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