Is BLE qualification required for proprietary service?

[Volodymyr]

Since related topic Is BLE changing licensing policy? was marked as resolved I moved my question to new one. My company is ready to get SIG membership for BLE usage and pay the fee. The only question is whether we need to pass qualification test if:

1. we are not going to use any Bluetooth logo or trademark on box, device
2. device will use the only proprietary BLE service
3. we don't even want to be compatible with any other profile or service
4. BLE is not the main service of our product
5. BLE will be used between our product and our application.

I would be really thankful for a piece of help. Thank you. PS. Tried to understand legal documents but unfortunately I am not lawyer.

[John]

Hi Volodymyr, I don't know if I have the correct answer to your question so I am posting this as a comment. My interpretation based on sitting in on the SIG conference call and reading their documentation last year is that you have to pay the fee for each product you ship that contains Bluetooth technology. You are essentially paying them for using the intellectual property in each product. Prior to last February you could buy an already qualified module and not pay a fee, but they were not able to fund their desired activity level with that model so they went to requiring a fee for each product.