| January 18, 2017 FTC: Qualcomm's Business Practices are Anticompetitive The Federal Trade Commission yesterday filed a complaint against Qualcomm, charging the company with anticompetitive business practices related to its broadband chip manufacturing business. Apple is among Qualcomm’s victims, according to the complaint.
The FTC notes that Qualcomm manufactures, sells, and holds the patents for its modem chips. Those patents are essential to industry standards enabling cellular connectivity, and telecommunications industry bodies have adopted those patents as part of their standards work, the FTC explains.
As part of including Qualcomm’s patented technology in the standards, companies are typically expected to license the technology on a fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory basis. But the FTC says that instead, Qualcomm has used its dominant position in the baseband processor...Read More
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