A U.S. federal court affirms a ruling against Qualcomm in its long-running battle with Broadcom over video technology patents, but voids a part of the lower-court decision that said Qualcomm could not enforce the patents. The ruling is slightly favorable to Qualcomm because of the part on enforceability, Charter Equity Research analyst Ed Snyder says. - WASHINGTON (Reuters) A U.S. federal court on...

U.S. District Court Judge James V. Selna finds Qualcomm in violation of an injunction designed to prevent infringement of two Broadcomm patents by selling and offering to sell enjoined EV-DO chips and by failing to pay royalties on legacy EV-DO chips.

In the Energizer Bunny of litigation (it keeps going and going and going), Broadcom won a round in its running battle with Qualcomm over EVDO chip patent issues when a federal district court ruled that Qualcomm violated an injunction to stop using Broadcom technology or pay royalties. Qualcomm had been allowed to continue to sell "legacy" EVDO chips until Jan. 31, 2009 as long as Broadcom got a ro...

Judge Rejects Most Grounds for Contempt, Finds Certain Violations SAN DIEGO - August 28, 2008 - Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), announced that the District Court for the Central District of California issued a ruling on Broadcom's motion to find Qualcomm in contempt of various aspects of the Court's December 31, 2007 injunction ruling arising from the underlying trial last May. While the Cou...

The Qualcomm is taking it it in the chin in Broadcom court cases. Yesterday a Santa Ana, Calif., federal judge ruled Qualcomm violated an injunction on the use of Broadcom patents and he ordered the company to pay royalties on certain QChat push-to-talk revenue. U.S. District Judge James Selna said there was "clear and convincing evidence" that Qualcomm was in contempt of a Dec. 31 order that he i...

A federal judge ruled that Qualcomm is in contempt of his 2007 injunction against the chip maker for infringing on rival Broadcom’s patents.

The complaint is related to chips used in phones with high-speed Web links and royalties Qualcomm should pay for its walkie-talkie feature QChat, used by Sprint Nextel.

Motorola has speeded up the outsourcing of 3.5G handsets by teaming up with Foxconn International Holdings (FIH)/Chi Mei Communication Systems (CMCS) for the ODM production of 3.5G handsets for 2009, according to sources in the Taiwan handset industry. FIH/CMCS will utilize chipsets from Qualcomm in the production of 3.5G handsets for Motorola, the sources indicated. FIH/CMCS'3.5G handset orders f...

After months of speculation, Motorola has named Sanjay Jha CEO of its ailing mobile devices division. Jha will also be co-CEO of Motorola, sharing the responsibility with Greg Brown.  Jha, a well-known wireless industry executive, was considered a rising star at Qualcomm where he was the firm's COO. He joined Qualcomm in 1994. Len Lauer, Qualcomm's executive vice president and group president, wil

As a key trial between Qualcomm and Nokia begins today over WCDMA patents, Nokia gained some ammunition in Germany. The German Federal Patent Court ruled that a Qualcomm patent pertaining to GSM phones was invalid and threw out Qualcomm's case against Nokia. The lawsuit was filed back in 2006, but delayed at Qualcomm's request. "Nokia believes that this case is illustrative of the ongoing patent d