Category: Qualcomm
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Qualcomm, Transsion sign license deal through end of 2031: 4G, 5G devices now all covered by single contract
Qualcomm and Transsion not only renewed one of their two existing license agreements through the end of 2031, but also seized the opportunity to consolidate both contracts into one.
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Qualcomm, Arm each claim victory in architecture licensing standoff; jury awards $2 damages
The two chipmakers have been engaged in a long-running contractual dispute over use of Arm’s processor architecture IP.
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Qualcomm-Huawei disagreement reflects inherently subjective nature of unpacking complex “license-plus” deals
Qualcomm’s and Huawei’s divergent interpretations of their license-plus-patent-transfer agreement are just the latest example of how two parties can take different perspectives on the same deal without anyone necessarily lying.
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Huawei, Qualcomm sign broad, multi-year patent cross-licensing agreement
The deal covers a range of technology fields, including 5G, compute, AI, and networking, and Qualcommâs purchase of certain Huawei U.S. patents in the areas of compute, AI, networking, and other technologies.
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Federal Circuit dismisses ParkerVision appeal against Qualcomm: Rule 54(b) does not allow partial final judgment on some claims of one patent
The Federal Circuit has held that a patent is a single cause of action, so judgments on receiver claims cannot be appealed while transmitter claims remain pending. ParkerVisionâs 15 years of litigation have returned to Florida.
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Qualcomm, Apple announce renewal of license agreement that was set to expire next spring: details unknown
No details are known, but this is likely one of the largest patent license deals in the industry.
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âWe have the obligation to price it rightâ: Qualcomm IP licensing head John Han
âWhether you pay at the device level or module level, we try to create parity in pricing so it does not discriminate or differentiate between where in the supply chain you take a license,â John Han, who was recently promoted to Executive Vice President of Qualcomm Technology Licensing, tells ip fray in an interview.
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âMarkets pay a premium for the smooth line and discount the stepsâ: tracking patent licensing revenueÂ
In a quarterly report, Jim Harlan, founder of The Standard Strategy (and formerly at InterDigital), tracks a 10-company basket of IP-licensing-centric businesses. His latest report notes that a decline in patent licensing value does not reflect the value itself, but rather the way markets price the âlumpyâ shape of licensing revenue.
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Heated debate on preliminary injunctions and rate-setting kicks off OxForaâs 14th Intellectual Property and Competition Forum
On a panel that featured speakers from Qualcomm, Huawei, Amazon, and Dell, panelists debated over whether injunctions should really exist. An executive from Amazon added that they would be happy to have courts set rates, no matter where they are based, as this causes âless of a port congestionâ.
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FedEx can fight another day in Qualcomm dispute, as Federal Circuit considers IPR real-parties-in-interest
The USPTO withdrew its initial defense of the PTAB’s refusal of FedEx’s arguments around real parties in interest.