QUALCOMM FACES PENALTIES HEARING OVER BROADCOM PATENT

摘要

At a March public hearing, the International Trade Commission (ITC) will set penalties against Qualcomm for infringing a Broadcom patent. In Dec., the ITC upheld an administrative law judge's decision that Qualcomm violated a Broadcom patent for a technology that helps wireless phones conserve battery power when out of cellular range. Qualcomm is happy to come to the hearing, it said. 揥e welcome the opportunity to demonstrate the unreasonable, overreaching and anticompetitive nature of what Broadcom is seeking,?Lou Lupin, gen. counsel, said. The remedy hearing may be the first the ITC has held in its growing patent docket, Stifel Nicolaus said in a research note, noting that the case was the subject of a Wall Street Journal editorial and an FCC filing, 揵oth warning the ITC of dire consequences of banning imports of CDMA 3G handsets.?Injunctions are nearly automatic in ITC patent infringement decisions, which the President can veto, though vetoes are rare, the analysts said.