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November 23, 2007
Qualcomm Skirmishes Update
The
ITC dropped Nokia's complaint against Qualcomm, pending arbitration; warfare
between the two continues in court. In a long-running Broadcom battle, Broadcom
just settled for $19.6 million, after a winning a $39.3 million jury award for
willful infringement,
overturned by the trial judge because the CAFC set the willfulness standard
near the ceiling in
Seagate this past August. Broadcom and Qualcomm continue to duke it out,
with Broadcom so far generally getting the better punches in. Qualcomm is a
patent pusher as well as a sometime patent pinata.
Sci-Tech Today reports that Qualcomm "expects to rack up more than $200 million in litigation expenses during its current financial year." Makes one ponder if such largesse to lawyers is a failure of prudence in negotiation by those with heads of stone. The sport of kings indeed.
Posted by Patent Hawk at November 23, 2007 11:04 PM | Patents In Business