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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: temco2 who wrote (54869)	8/31/2006 10:08:07 PM
From: hedgefund	Respond to of 196989

A Bad Hair Day for Broadcom: It looks like the federal district judge did not buy into Broadcom's theory that granting discounts to licensee/chip customers is unlawful: "Broadcom alleged, among other things, that Qualcomm had promised to license its patents for such technology on "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms," but instead used discounts on royalties and other techniques in ways that improperly gave benefits to Qualcomm's chip business. But U.S. District Judge Mary Cooper, in a 47-page opinion, dismissed Broadcom's contentions. "The allegations in the complaint read as a whole do not support an inference that competition in the UMTS chipset market is, or will be injured by Qualcomm's licensing practices," she wrote."