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Qualcomm Antitrust Case

Antitrust and Regulatory Actions

In 2019 a federal judge ruled against the chipmaker Qualcomm in a case brought by the United States Federal Trade Commission, finding that Qualcomm's patent licensing practices toward smartphone makers were anticompetitive. The ruling was later overturned on appeal, but the case drew wide attention to the licensing practices that underpin the mobile chip industry.

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Antitrust case 1
Event Year
2019 1
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1. Wikipedia, FTC v. Qualcomm
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On May 21, 2019, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California ruled in favor of the plaintiff, the FTC
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