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Industry Giants Square Off Against Qualcomm Over 3G Patents

Oct 28, 2005, 9:06 AM by (staff)

Six industry heavyweights have joined forces to file Complaints to the European Commission requesting that it investigate Qualcomm's alleged anti-competitive conduct in the licensing of essential patents for WCDMA technology. Broadcom, Ericsson, NEC, Nokia, Panasonic, and Texas Instruments are the complainants. The companies claim that Qualcomm is failing to meet commitments it made to industry groups to license its technology on fair terms. The anti-competitive behavior includes trying to prevent other companies from making WCDMA chipsets, and offering lower royalty rates to handset makers who only buy chipsets from Qualcomm.

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Sad sad world................	chrisnyc	Oct 28, 2005, 11:46 AM
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