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...

The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation is scheduled to hold a hearing Nov. 20 on requests to consolidate some two dozen antitrust class-action lawsuits alleging that AT&T Mobility, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel Corp.

Gabriel said there are public safety overtones to the mobile GPS patents cited in its lawsuit against Qualcomm.

Verizon Wireless has settled a lawsuit over visual voice mail technology with the patent's owner, Klausner Technologies. The companies said today that Verizon would license Klausner's patents and settle their outstanding litigation. They did not reveal terms of the agreement. Visual voicemail lets users see on their phone screen who has left a voicemail and choose which messages to liste...

We figured back in August that Verizon (and LG) would eventually be forced to pay up in order to keep visual voicemail on its handsets, and sure enough, that's exactly what has gone down with the former company. Verizon and Klausner Technologies have quickly settled outstanding patent litigation by way of Verizon entering into a patent license agreement for using visual voicemail. To date, Ve...

FREE, FAMILY-FRIENDLY WIRELESS broadband for the masses may be on the way. So may messy litigation to keep it grounded.

Sprint affiliate iPCS claimed a legal victory after the Delaware Chancery Court stayed a lawsuit there pending the outcome of litigation between iPCS and Sprint in Illinois. Schaumburg, Ill.-based iPCS and Sprint have been involved in litigation for months over Sprint's decision to merge its WiMAX business with Clearwire Corp. iPCS contends the move will violate exclusivity agreements it has ...

In what appeared to be a potentially far-reaching case, Broadcom Corp. has asked a U.S.

The Supreme Court dealt the wireless industry a setback by declining to review lower court rulings that found T-Mobile USA Inc.’s arbitration clause in service contracts do not prevent subscribers from lodging class-action lawsuits against the No.

vs. Just days after MetroPCS ended all outstanding litigation with Leap Wireless, they’ve entered into a suit with Virgin Mobile. According to the Dallas Business Journal, it is over MetroPCS’s MetroFlash program, which allows new customers to bring existing CDMA phones to Metro for use on their network. You can read more about MetroFlash here. No word on the exact nature of the case. ...