Qualcomm slapped with fine for violating Broadcom injunction

Ooh, Qualcomm you been naughty. You might remember that last year Qualcomm was banned from selling various 3G chips that infringed on Broadcom's patents, but the big Q apparently believes that being in trouble is a fake idea, because it kept right on doing it -- to the point where a judge yesterday found the company in contempt for violating the injunction and ordered it to pay up gross profits from sales of its QChat push-to-talk tech to Broadcom. The court gave Qualcom 30 days to figure out how much it owes -- Sprint's paid over $93M to use the tech since last December, so it's not going to be peanuts. Qualcomm says it'll immediately comply, but is planning on appealing the order, so we'll how this all goes down.

[phanbouy @ Aug 29th 2008 5:09PM]

well according to the graphic, Qualcomm likes to be on top

[The Dude @ Aug 29th 2008 5:54PM]

Are we really going to go there? Comm on.

But srsly anyway, Broadcom looks excited to see Qualcomm. Maybe their motto should be "Comming (on) everything."

[Jason @ Aug 29th 2008 6:22PM]

Either way, they're getting Broadcommed up tha waz.

[Todd @ Aug 29th 2008 5:11PM]

Executives from Broadcomm could not be reached for comment...because they were in a strip club with really poor mobile phone reception.

[Alex @ Aug 29th 2008 5:41PM]

LOL ;D

[Abuzar Baloach @ Aug 29th 2008 5:53PM]

Says the guy with the ATT avatar...

[Todd @ Aug 29th 2008 5:11PM]

Executives from Broadcomm could not be reached for comment...because they were in a strip club with really poor mobile phone reception.

[Who Knows @ Aug 29th 2008 8:44PM]

Im fully aware of what you stated.

[thatrotierkid @ Aug 30th 2008 12:07AM]

damn dropped calls

[DumbUser @ Aug 29th 2008 5:22PM]

Get the story right....the judge ordered this yesterday, not today. Also, Sprint paid Qualcomm $93 million, NOT $39 million. That's a pretty big difference.

[cubanresourceful @ Aug 29th 2008 6:06PM]

You spelled yesterday wrong.... :/ Well, yay for copyright infringing. Quick everyone, help me seed some music torrents I'm going to download, Qualcomm is my hero!

[phanbouy @ Aug 29th 2008 6:09PM]

he spelled it wrong because DumbUser yelled at him to change it

[x3qt0r @ Aug 29th 2008 7:56PM]

Broadcom is showing a middle finger to qualcomm.

nice.
(see i didnt go too gross)

[Matt Kapko @ Aug 29th 2008 8:46PM]

We broke this story... http://www.moconews.net/entry/419-judge-qualcomm-still-infringing-on-broadcom-patents/

[Jason @ Sep 1st 2008 1:09AM]

And then to make it extra cool you spammed it. Irritating self-aggrandizing FTW!!!

[Robert @ Sep 1st 2008 8:49PM]

Trouble is a fake idea: an homage to Achewood or lifted from it?
http://achewood.com/index.php?date=01272005