Judge kills Broadcom patent lawsuit
Qualcomm free
Tuesday, 17 March 2009, 13:45
A US JUDGE has dismissed a patent lawsuit brought by chip maker Broadcom against Qualcomm claiming the outfit had failed to say which patent its rival had broken.
Broadcom had argued that Qualcomm was unfairly limiting competition by putting excessive conditions in its patent licensing terms.
In November, Qualcomm said that Broadcom had failed "to specify a single device, a single patent, a single license, or a single sale" in its lawsuit.
The court agreed and lobbed the case out. Broadcom said that it would refile the lawsuit in two weeks. µ
L'Inq
Computerworld
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Congratulations, your summary manages to leave out just about every important fact of the case: that it was Qualcomm’s patents at issue, that Broadcom was suing to stop Qualcomm putting restrictions on downstream use of its licensed patents (doctrine of patent exhaustion), and that that patents had to do with chipsets for mobile phones.