Before Patrick started the firm, he spent over 20 years as a high-tech strategy, product, and marketing executive who has addressed the personal computer, mobile, graphics, and server ecosystems. Through standards development and our broad licensing program, we make our breakthroughs available to licensees who use them to develop products. Qualcommâs licensing and technology transfer program, ecosystem partnerships, and services accelerate the growth of the wireless industry, reduce barriers to entry, encourage competition, level the playing field, and ultimately make the benefits of mobile technology available to more people, more efficiently, and across socio-economic classes.Qualcomm uses its one-of-a-kind expertise to tackle systems-level engineering problems that can take a decade or more to solve.
Some of Qualcomm's patents are essential to industry standards, and the company has pledged to license them to other industry players on fair and reasonable terms.The FTC's civil lawsuit accused Qualcomm of using its lucrative stockpile of patents to bolster its chip business because it refused to license them to rival chip suppliers, denying them the intellectual property needed to make competing chips. Read how 5G is bringing the world a platform of innovations, redefining communication, powering the digital economy with the possibility of over $12 trillion in future growth, and much more.©2020 Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its affiliated companies.References to "Qualcomm" may mean Qualcomm Incorporated, or subsidiaries or business units within the Qualcomm corporate structure, as applicable.Qualcomm Incorporated includes Qualcomm's licensing business, QTL, and the vast majority of its patent portfolio. 19-16122. Feb 13 (Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc on Thursday will urge a U.S. appeals court to reverse a ruling that it abused its position as a giant of the semiconductor industry and overcharged smartphone makers for access to its patented technology.The San Francisco-based U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in a closely watched antitrust case the U.S. Federal Trade Commission brought against Qualcomm in early 2017, during the final days of former President Barack Obama's administration.The three judges hearing the arguments will likely take several months to issue their ruling but could give some indication on Thursday of how they will rule.San Diego, California-based Qualcomm, which supplies modem chips that connect phones and other devices to wireless data networks, is fighting a May 2019 decision by a lower court judge in favor of the competition regulator.In that decision, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh said Qualcomms patent licensing practices had strangled competition" and harmed consumers.