Comment by paxys

When I worked at Qualcomm a while ago the company had two major business lines. One of them was developing and selling a line of mobile chipsets (Snapdragon) to a lot of the major players in the market, for which they employed thousands of top engineers and researchers. The other was licensing their CDMA patents to all of the players in the market, and this org was run entirely by lawyers. The second business made significantly more money than the first.