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Article: Appeals Court Affirms District Court Ruling That Qualcomm Abused Standards Setting Process and Engaged in Litigation Misconduct.
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- December 1, 2008
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IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Broadcom Corporation , a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today upheld a decision by a federal judge in San Diego that Qualcomm violated its duty to disclose its patents to a standards body and that, as a result, the patents are unenforceable against products practicing the standard at issue.
In today's ruling, the appeals court agreed with the district court "that Qualcomm intentionally organized a plan to shield its patents from consideration by the JVT, intending to later obtain royalties from H.264-compliant ...