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"Appeals court rules against ban on Qualcomm chips"
"Appeals court rules against ban on Qualcomm chips": The Associated Press provides a report that begins, "A federal appeals court Tuesday ruled that the International Trade Commission's ban on imports of cell phones with chips made by Qualcomm Inc...

Federal Circuit rules on Qualcomm patents appeal
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Monday affirmed in part and vacated in part a ruling against Qualcomm, finding its patents unenforceable. The appeals court affirmed the decision of the US District Court of the Southern District of California in Qualcomm v...

Court to Former Qualcomm Lawyers: You are Free To Fight!
Last summer, when writing about the big patent smackdown between Qualcomm and Broadcom, we observed that we’d never seen such a friendly-looking group of lawyers as the bunch from Day Casebeer, Qualcomm’s former outside counsel....

Federal court dismisses Broadcom antitrust complaint against Qualcomm
[JURIST] Wireless communications company Qualcomm announced Monday that the US District Court for the Southern District of California has dismissed a lawsuit against it by longtime corporate rival Broadcom asking the court to declare several Qualcomm patents exhausted and unenforceable...

SEC SETTLES INSIDER TRADING CASE WITH QUALCOMM'S FORMER DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC MARKETING
On June 16, 2010, the United States District Court for the Southern District of California entered a final judgment against Andres Leyva, a former Director of Strategic Marketing Analysis at San Diego-based Qualcomm Incorporated...

Federal court dismisses Qualcomm antitrust class action
[JURIST] The US District Court for the Southern District of California on Tuesday dismissed a consumer class action lawsuit against telecommunications company Qualcomm. Christopher Lorenzo sued Qualcomm in November, alleging that the chipset manufacturer holds patents on technologies necessary for CDMA cellular networks, and has used the licensing of these technologies to adversely affect competition in the CDMA market...