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Re:What's Reasonable to Qualcomm Isn't to Apple by petra on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @03:18PM (#14303035)
>> what prevent a 3rd party factory from building chips and licensing tech ..?

Quallcom. they could dictate the licensing agreement such that the phone maker also has to license it.

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Re:What's Reasonable to Qualcomm Isn't to Apple by Glyptodon on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @04:46PM (#14303660)
Only if that's part of the standard compulsory license agreement, and if any such agreement somehow gets around patent exhaustion. Which is more or less what I was curious about.
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