U.S. COURT WON’T REHEAR ARGUMENTS AGAINST QUALCOMM

Highlights

• The US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in a brief order said it would not rehear arguments over engagement of Qualcomm in anticompetitive patent-licensing practices to keep hold on the modem chip market

• Previously on August 11, a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit had said that the US Federal Trade Commission was unsuccessful in establishing that Qualcomm’s practices had an anticompetitive effe....