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Broadcom wins appeal against Qualcomm

Broadcom Corp. will proceed with an antitrust action against Qualcomm Corp. over deceptive conduct before a standards-setting body after an appeals court reversed a lower court that had dismissed its claims. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit yesterday ruled that the...

WiMAX IPR: Emerging battlefield or new playground?

THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM-promoted by the WiMAX Forum and confirmed to a degree by at least two independent market research firms-is that no one company owns a potentially disabling amount of intellectual property in WiMAX technology. The implication is that the road ahead for the...

Auction, disputes propel lobbying efforts

Who says you can't buy influence? Or at least attempt to.During the first six months of this year, the communications-electronics sector spent big money attempting to curry favor from elected officials on topics ranging from trade disputes to the upcoming 700 MHz spectrum auction.According...

Patent litigation: the art of persuasion: Lay juries often make the call, appeals are common

AS THE 3G MARKET HEATS UP, so has the level of litigation among industry players, exemplified by longrunning headlines involving the Goliaths and the Davids in wireless.The underlying disputes that have generated the current level of litigation may be few, but the number of...

Lead counsel remains at Qualcomm: Lupin taking leave of absence, not resigning

Qualcomm Inc. clarified last week that its former general counsel, Lou Lupin, is taking a personal leave and is not resigning from the company.Qualcomm had issued a terse press release last Monday stating that Lupin had resigned his position as general counsel, which is...

Shifting ground: W-CDMA baseband business in flux

The W-CDMA baseband chip business is morphing in real time, as various market pressures push and pull the players to partner, diversify their customer base or pursue less-demanding technologies.Data from Forward Concepts (see chart) shows that last year Texas Instruments Inc. was the global...

Nokia blasts Qualcomm at ITC, Qualcomm reworks legal strategy

Nokia Corp. fired yet another salvo at Qualcomm Inc., filing a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission alleging Qualcomm is infringing on five of its patents. The news serves to widen the gulf between the two companies as each seeks to gain leverage...

Lead counsel for Qualcomm resigns

Qualcomm Inc. is keeping the reasons for the resignation of its general counsel, announced today, close to its vest. No reasons were given for General Counsel Lou Lupin's resignation in the terse announcement. In a press release, the San Diego-based chip vendor and IP...

Qualcomm: Nokia agreement awaits litigation outcomes: Chip vendor looks to courts, regulators for guidance on cross-licensing path

It's been all quiet on the Nokia Corp.- Qualcomm Inc. front for months-only the two parties really know whether minions in suits and toting bulging briefcases are actually meeting on a cross-licensing agreement and whether either's lawyers ever actually shout in frustration.Shouting would be...

Qualcomm pledges chip workaround: President passes on veto, ITC chip ban goes into effect

The president last week declined to veto his trade office's ban on new 3G handsets containing a patent-infringing Qualcomm Inc. chip, sending the vendor back to court to pursue new means to end the ban.Qualcomm filed a request on Aug. 8 in the Court...

Nokia’s new chip strategy realigns space: STMicroelectronics gets 3G win, EDGE gives Broadcom boost

WHEN A BEHEMOTH SHAKES ITS TAIL, some rise, some fall. The behemoth benefits.That appears to be the upshot of Nokia Corp.'s announcement last week that it had selected four main chipset suppliers for future business. The move boosted some fortunes and cast off others,...

The Week in Review

Welcome to our Friday feature, Week in Review. Every Friday, RCR Wireless News will run through the major events of the past week, outlining what happened and speculating on what to look for in the coming weeks. Check below for news about carriers, handset...

Nokia diversifies chip sources, sheds some R&D

Nokia Corp. is accelerating its research-and-development efforts in software to enable mobile Internet services while scaling back on research and development in chip-based radio technology. In tandem with this strategy, the Finnish company will pursue multiple sources for its chipsets, many bearing its royalty-producing,...

ITC’s 3G ban stands, Qualcomm appeals

The president passed and Qualcomm Inc. is heading to court. A 60-day window closed yesterday for a presidential veto of the U.S. International Trade Commission's June 7 ban on the importation of new 3G handsets containing Qualcomm Inc.'s chips. Now, the company will...

Analysts and Qcom execs focus on legal overhang, despite strong financials

Great results are great, except if you can't count on repeating them.Thus when a company posts big jumps in revenue, profit and unit shipments and raises guidance for the year, but both the CEO and president preface their remarks to analysts by delivering nearly...

Qualcomm raises financial guidance, while lawyers wrestle

Qualcomm Inc. can chew gum while swatting at nemeses who hover over its business model, if yesterday's financial results are any indication. But the chip vendor acknowledged that it had won and lost in various legal matters during the quarter. For its fiscal third-quarter...

Financial ratings wrap-up: AT&T, Nokia, Motorola, and more

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier --Standard & Poor's Ratings Services revised its outlook on AT&T Inc. to stable from negative and affirmed its ratings.--Standard & Poor's Ratings Services revised...

Exploiting iPhone’s Achilles’ heels: In other words, don’t panic, but find fun in phones

"Serenity now!" yelled the character George Costanza in one episode of the 1990s sitcom, "Seinfeld."Costanza's anguished cry underscored the unbridgeable gap between his desperate need for serenity and the angst that gripped his soul.A roughly analogous gap may yawn between the public serenity of...

Broadcom: Counter-offer is old news

Covering the Hatfields' and the McCoys' blood feud might be easier than sifting through the conflicting claims between Broadcom Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. over patent rights and competitive issues.The two chip vendors' public rhetoric continued to heat up last week, even as the companies...

Work-around veto?

Conventional wisdom suggests a presidential-level veto of an International Trade Commission ruling is a long shot, especially compared to pardons or, say, commutations of prison sentences.But maybe not in this case. There's the ITC patent infringement/import ban ruling against Qualcomm Inc. Then there...

Sprint Nextel may be working around ITC ban on new 3G handsets: Qualcomm appears intent on legal vindication

Sprint Nextel Corp. may be testing a "work-around" software patch from Qualcomm Inc. to avoid a government ban on the importation of new 3G handset models with certain Qualcomm chips. Qualcomm, meanwhile, is letting its network operator customers speak to the work-around issue, and...

Jacobs: Looking beyond the dial tone: Qualcomm’s rockstar touts future innovations

SAN DIEGO-The BREW 2007 conference opened last week with a rock-concert feel as a large instrumental band spread out on the conference floor-some musicians wheeled around the audience in a modified golf cart and one drummer played suspended from the ceiling.Following the kickoff, the...

ITC reaffirms ban on Qualcomm chips: Qualcomm continues to pursue presidential veto, federal appeal

A partial ban on the importation of new handset models containing Qualcomm Inc.'s 3G chips will remain in effect as the chip vendor's appeal is heard in a federal court and considered by the Bush administration.The United States International Trade Commission ruled yesterday that...

ITC reaffirms partial ban on Qualcomm chips: Qualcomm continues to pursue presidential veto and federal appeal

A partial ban on the importation of new handset models containing Qualcomm Inc.'s 3G chips will remain in effect as the chip vendor's appeal is heard in a federal court and considered by the Bush administration.The United States International Trade Commission ruled yesterday that...