Broadcom damages against Qualcomm may be cut
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The hit on Qualcomm from a patent suit it lost to rival Broadcom may be slashed because of an unrelated ruling that came down in August.
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Qualcomm Inc. QCOM.O, a maker of  chips used in mobile phones, on Friday said it may change the  way it recognizes royalties from licensees, which would reduce  fourth-quarter pretax income by $298 million.
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The U.S. International Trade Commission has denied Qualcomm Inc.'s  request to stay an order banning imports of new phone models with Qualcomm chips the trade agency said infringe a Broadcom Corp.  patent, Broadcom said on Friday.
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The ongoing Qualcomm-Broadcom brawl over certain chip-related patents took another turn this week when a district court judge threw further restrictions on Qualcomm's ability to sell and support certain wireless chipsets.
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Wireless chipmaker Qualcomm  Inc.  on Thursday raised its estimates for the current  quarter, but a new investigation related to a patent dispute  showed it was still mired in legal woes.
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At least until 2009 A federal judge in California has ruled that Qualcomm is allowed to sell chips infringing on the Broadcom patents, until the end of January 2009 at least, while paying a mandatory royalty to Broadcom during that period.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - U.S. mobile users waiting for the next crop of phones could breathe a sigh of relief Wednesday when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted a stay on an import ban against handsets that use some Qualcomm chips. The International Trade CommissionÂ (ITC) ordered the ban in JuneÂ after theÂ Qualcomm chips were found to infringe Broadcom patents. It only affected future models, not current imports. If imposed, it could affect handset makers including Motorola, Samsung Electronics, and others, whoÂ filed motions seeking the stay. The latest move lets those manufacturers bring in the new phone models while Qualcomm appeals the ITC's order and seeks a reversal of the patent-infringement ruling. The fight for the stay was considered an uphill battle. Smith Brittingham, a lawyer with Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, said in June he could only remember one time when such a ruling had been stayed pending an appeal. âIt would be a significant victory for Qualcomm,â he said at the time. Last month theÂ Bush administration turned downÂ a request by Qualcomm to stop the ban. The stay affects the third-party companies that filed motions, which also include Kyocera Wireless, Sanyo Fisher, T-Mobile USA, LG Electronics MobileComm USA, and AT&T Mobility. The circuit court didn't grant a stay for Qualcomm's own imports, but Qualcomm does not itself import the chips found to infringe Broadcom's patents, according to a Qualcomm press release Wednesday. Broadcom went to the ITC seeking an import ban only against Qualcomm. The third parties and Qualcomm argued in the appeals court that the ITC didn't have the authority to exclude products imported by other companies. The court said the third parties had a substantial case and the harm they might suffer weighed in their favor, according to Qualcomm. Broadcom could not immediately be reached for comment. In July,Â Broadcom reached a deal with Verizon WirelessÂ that would let Verizon continue to import phones using the disputed technology. Under that deal, Verizon will pay Broadcom $6 for every handset, PDA (personal digital assistant) or data card that uses EV-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized) mobile broadband technology. The payments have a ceiling of $40 million per calendar quarter and a lifetime maximum of $200 million. As part of the deal, Verizon also will drop its effort to overturn the ruling. The patent fight is one of a series of intellectual-property disputes between mobile pioneer Qualcomm and Broadcom, a communications chip maker that has moved aggressively into the mobile arena. (Nancy Gohring in Seattle contributed to this story.) Â
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A U.S. district court has dismissed an antitrust suit brought by microchip maker Broadcom Corp. against Qualcomm Inc., although Broadcom said it would continue to pursue the case.
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By The Orange County Register, Calif.  Feb. 10--Four directors of Broadcom Corp. received a total $275,000 in  extra compensation for serving on the audit committee that investigated the  company's stock options awards.   The committee chairman, George L.
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(InfoWorld) - The U.S. International Trade Commission has denied a request by Qualcomm Inc. to stay an ITC ban on the importation of some Qualcomm chips and cell phones into the U.S. while the company continues its appeal in a patent infringement case filed against it by Broadcom Corp. The ITC found in an eight-page ruling issued Thursday that Qualcomm failed to meet a "four-prong test" applied in courts trying to determine whether to grant preliminary injunctions. The test was also used in this particular case by a U.S. federal court and requires that Qualcomm prove: a likelihood its appeal will succeed; that irreparable harm will be done to it if the stay is not imposed; that "issuance of a stay would not substantially harm other parties"; and "that the public interest favors a stay." After reviewing arguments and also hearing from other companies in the same market, the ITC found that Qualcomm didn't meet the requirements of the four-prong test. The ITC issued the ban on June 7 after hearings on the matter. The ban applies to some future mobile phones using Qualcomm 3G (third-generation) chips after the ITC found that Qualcomm infringed on one Broadcom patent. A jury in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in Santa Ana found in late May that Qualcomm infringed on three other Broadcom patents and awarded Broadcom US$19.6 million in damages. A few hours before the ITC ruling came out, the head of the CTIA cellular industry association sent a letter to U.S. President George Bush urging him to toss out the ban, contending that it will "freeze innovation" for U.S. wireless networks and hinder industry efforts to improve emergency 911 services. The intervention of a president would be rare in such an instance, but even if Bush does not act as the CTIA has requested Qualcomm can appeal the ITC ban to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. As would be expected, Broadcom hailed the ITC decision, with its Senior Vice President and General Counsel David A. Dull saying in a statement that "the protection of intellectual property is essential to American competitiveness and innovation ... particularly in this age of advanced technology and huge worldwide consumer demand for electronic devices and equipment." He further noted that "the burden of resolving these matters rests squarely with Qualcomm." No word yet on the matter from Qualcomm, which is based in San Diego and so no one there was available to comment Friday morning U.S. Eastern Time. Â
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Shares fall as the company says it may end royalty estimates and count them only when received. NEW YORK  - Qualcomm Inc.
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Qualcomm Inc.  said on Tuesday that a U.S. federal jury had found it infringed three patents held by Broadcom Corp. in the latest of their ongoing legal disputes.
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Wireless chip supplier Qualcomm Inc  said on Wednesday it would be hurt in the short term by a court injunction on the sale of chips infringing rival Broadcom Corp's  patents, but it promised to have alternative products in phones before the end of the quarter.
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A U.S. district court has dismissed an   antitrust suit filed by microchip maker Broadcom Corp. BRCM.O   against Qualcomm Inc. QCOM.O, although Broadcom said it would   continue to pursue the case.
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A federal jury told wireless chip  supplier Qualcomm Inc.  to pay smaller rival Broadcom  Corp.  $19.6 million in damages for infringing three of  its patents, the companies said on Tuesday.
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The panel ruled that Qualcomm, a maker of cellphone chips, is infringing a Broadcom Corporation patent on a way to conserve handset battery power.
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A U.S. federal judge has clamped further restrictions on Qualcomm&#39;s ability to sell and support certain wireless chip sets, saying that they infringe on three patents held by rival Broadcom.