&gt; As you said, the sauce is secret. I think the question of whether Qualcomm should be permitted to keep the sauce secret and how much the law should help or hinder this secrecy is worthy of at lease some debate.<p>This is going in circles. You cannot patent something without disclosing it. So, either Qualcomm has a patent, and it isn&#x27;t secret, or they don&#x27;t have a patent (nor can they ever, after 18 months) and the argument is moot.