Qualcomm's request for stay on chip ban refused... again
By Darren Murph 
posted Jul 22nd 2007 1:00PM
posted Jul 22nd 2007 1:00PM
Talk about tough luck. For the second time in as many month's, Qualcomm has been flat out denied by the courts as it has attempted to stall a ban on its chips over the Broadcom patent disputes. This time around, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit "dismissed Qualcomm's request for a stay of the ban, saying that it can't consider a stay until a presidential review period is over." Furthermore, this harsh news (for Qualcomm, at least) comes just days after being evaded by Verizon, and if that wasn't enough, the EU's stamp of approval on DVB-H could put MediaFlo in a world of hurt. Hang in there Qualcomm, all's not lost... yet.
I have absolutely ZERO sympathy for this company. Qualcomm basically wants royalties for anything with an antenna attached (exaggeration to make a point). It's about time for this "tech-turn-law firm" to get a taste of its own medicine.
Amen brother.
hear, hear.
Greed
I mean, agreed!
Oh how the mighty have fallen ("we will be the Intel and Microsoft of mobile phones"). Now go die slow Jerk-offs!
Oh how the mighty have fallen (we will be like the Intel and Microsoft of Mobile Phones). Now go die a slow death Jirk-offs!!
Woops, Sry :^(...
you guys who are cheering this ridiculous punishment of QCOM must not realize that BRCM is even worse
From my experience Broadcom are not worse. They don't try and subvert standards committees, they don't charge excessive license fees (Qualcomm charge as much for their CDMA licenses as they do for their entire chipset + license, effectively killing 3rd party chipset manufacturers) and they don't get into large scale spats with the device manufacturers.
This is karma.