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Ehh, the secrets that were shared really should be public anyway. Qualcomm have single handedly distorted the American mobile device market by working trade sec
by swiley 8y ago
Ehh, the secrets that were shared really should be public anyway. Qualcomm have single handedly distorted the American mobile device market by working trade secrets and patents into the LTE standard.
- astrodust 8y agoQualcomm's ridiculousness with things like CDMA set back the American wireless industry almost a decade.
- ddoolin 8y agoI'd like to learn more, any recommendations/links?
- skunkworker 8y agohttps://www.patentprogress.org/2017/01/27/no-listen-qualcomm/ https://www.patentprogress.org/2017/01/27/no-listen-qualcomm... I wrote about the KFTC action recently, in which the KFTC fined Qualcomm about $850 million and ordered it to stop its abusive licensing practices. The KFTC found that Qualcomm dominated the pool of essential patents for the CDMA cellular phone standard, and it used those patents to monopolize the market for CDMA chipsets: It refused to license to competitors, even though as part of the standard-setting process, Qualcomm had committed to license to anyone on fair and reasonable terms It forced handset companies to separately take a patent license if they wanted to buy Qualcomm chips. That was on top of the purchase price for the chips. It forced handset companies to give Qualcomm licenses to their own patents, for free. https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/10/11/qualcomm-antirust-war-patent-licensing-issues/id=88891/ https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/10/11/qualcomm-antirust-war-...