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- Qualcomm, Broadcom settle patent suit for $891 million
- Qualcomm and Broadcom said Monday that they have settled a four-year lawsuit with a multi-year patent agreement valued at $891 million over four years. Qualcomm and Broadcom have been fighting in court over wireless chip patents in three different venues--the International Trade Commission, a U.S. District Court...
- Tags: Broadcom Corp., Qualcomm Inc., Wi-Fi, Semiconductors, 3G, Wireless And Mobility, Processors, Hardware, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Components, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- Broadcom complaint against rival Qualcomm dismissed
- A federal court has dismissed a Broadcom complaint against rival Qualcomm, the latest in the companies' lengthy battle over mobile phone technology patents, Qualcomm said on Monday. In October 2008, Broadcom charged that Qualcomm's misuse of patents resulted in a "double recovery" of royalties, a potential windfall...
- Tags: Patent, Broadcom Corp., Qualcomm Inc., Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- A Wii Legal Action: Publicity For Simplicity
- Finally, a fight over remote controls that rely on hand motion, more than buttons. Oh, Nintendo’s Wii has about a half-dozen buttons, plus a four-cornered “plus sign†for directional instructions. Well, Hillcrest Labs of Rockville, MD, can top (actually, undercut) that. It markets...
- Tags: Cable Television, Nintendo Co. Ltd., Nintendo Wii, Hillcrest Labs, Cable, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?
- As expected, billionaire Carl Icahn launched his proxy war to turn over Yahoo's board of directors and one of his nominees is Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo and then took those funds to buy the Dallas Mavericks. Just for entertainment value I may buy a...
- Tags: Bebchuk, Board, Business Operations, Carl Icahn, Chairman, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Director, Larry Dignan, Mark Cuban, Microsoft Corp., Shareholder, Yahoo Shareholder, Yahoo! Inc.
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Conflict of interest in FTC's DoubleClick hearing?
- Privacy groups are trying to get FTC chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras, a Republican, to recuse herself from consideration of the Google-DoubleClick deal. It seems that DoubleClick has tapped the DC law firm of Jones Day to represent it before the FCC and Majoras' husband is an equity investor in Jones...
- Tags: Jones Day, Transaction, DoubleClick Inc., FTC, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- Qualcomm import ban will effect U.S. 3G data networks
- Yesterday, the Bush administration decided to uphold a June decision from the US International Trade Commission that bans chips made by Qualcomm Inc. that violate a Broadcom Corp. patent. This does not look like good news for Qualcomm and those of us who want to see more 3G mobile devices...
- Tags: Data Network, Patent, Broadcom Corp., Network, Qualcomm Inc., Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
- Chinese to buy lots of US technology to smooth over trade relations
- Government leaders hailed an agreement with Chinese business leaders in which the Chinese would buy $4.3 billion of US technology, a move to smooth over US anger over the growing trade imbalance, AP reports. The trade imbalance with China stands at $232 billion. California Lt. Gov. John Garamendi hailed...
- Tags: Chinese business leader
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- U.S. 'lobbied' the EC over Microsoft fine
- U.S. 'lobbied' the EC over Microsoft fineWow, the Bush administration is going from prosecuting criminals to helpingthem avoid abiding by the laws in other countries.Not a very good precident indeed.U.S. 'lobbied' the EC over Microsoft fineThis story is a load of bunk. There is no way the U.S. would...
- Tags: Government, Microsoft Corp., U.S. Government
- Discussion threads 2006-09-26
- Creative: Trade agency investigating Apple
- Creative: Trade agency investigating AppleThis is a good one!A foreign company is trying to use a US Government agency against a US company.iPods have been around for yearsWhy do this now?Non-storySo Creative got some body, a body with no actual legal power behind it, to review their patent case?...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Digital music, Media players, Digital media, agency, Microsoft Corp., Canopy, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-06-14
- Homeland security group to meet away from public eye
- Homeland security group to meet away from public eyeSecurity reasons eh?Well, not really news worthy. Dick Cheney felt that all meetings he has with oil execs and other corporate types are covered under national security "911" special laws. Bush cites security reasons for banning protestors and regulating them...
- Tags: Vertical industries, national security, government, homeland security
- Discussion threads 2006-03-24
- Congress looks askance at firms that bow to China
- Congress looks askance at firms that bow to ChinantSo our government is allowed to do this, but companies aren't?...Freedom Starts at HomeAs recently as last year US bloggers had to fight the Federal Election Commission to keep the internet free for political discussion in America.Although the FEC has dropped regulating...
- Tags: Government, INTERNET, Microsoft Corp., U.S. Congress, Federal Election Commission
- Discussion threads 2006-01-12
- Gates proves real resolve in bringing spammers to justice
- Being somewhat of a tech-weenie -- one who's gone on endless tirades about spam -- I've always favored technical approaches over legal approaches to that which ails us when it comes to e-mail. Before most people knew what phishing was which was only last year, I tried to sound the alarm, and,...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., spammer, Aaron Kornblum, phishing
- Blog posts 2005-03-31
- State Department questions EU's Microsoft ruling
- State Department questions EU's Microsoft rulingLOL"In imposing this anti-consumer, anti-innovation penalty, the commission has blatantly undercut the settlement that was so carefully and painstakingly crafted with Microsoft by the U.S. Department of Justice and several state antitrust authorities. The commission's complete indifference to the negative impact of its ruling on...
- Tags: U.S. Department of State, Microsoft Corp., tobacco, commission
- Discussion threads 2004-03-30
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