Qualcomm slapped with fine for violating Broadcom injunction
By Nilay Patel 
posted Aug 29th 2008 5:04PM
posted Aug 29th 2008 5:04PM
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.
well according to the graphic, Qualcomm likes to be on top
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."
Either way, they're getting Broadcommed up tha waz.
Executives from Broadcomm could not be reached for comment...because they were in a strip club with really poor mobile phone reception.
LOL ;D
Says the guy with the ATT avatar...
Executives from Broadcomm could not be reached for comment...because they were in a strip club with really poor mobile phone reception.
Im fully aware of what you stated.
damn dropped calls
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.
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!
he spelled it wrong because DumbUser yelled at him to change it
Broadcom is showing a middle finger to qualcomm.
nice.
(see i didnt go too gross)
We broke this story... http://www.moconews.net/entry/419-judge-qualcomm-still-infringing-on-broadcom-patents/
And then to make it extra cool you spammed it. Irritating self-aggrandizing FTW!!!
Trouble is a fake idea: an homage to Achewood or lifted from it?
http://achewood.com/index.php?date=01272005