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America's trade watchdog has been ordered to provide copies of the letters that led to its antitrust probe into California chip designer Qualcomm. In a San Jose district court ruling on Thursday, Judge Lucy Koh told the FTC it must give the Snapdragon giant copies of the "dual submission" documents in question – some of them …

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  1. Trollslayer
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    Patents

    Qualcomm are having to move into other sectors now because they can't strangle competitors by penalising customer with differential patent licensing fees as the patents are expiring.

    The killed a number of competitors that way except for Mediatek who are showing them how to get designs out there.

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    1. whoseyourdaddy
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      Re: Patents

      "strangle competitors by penalising customer with differential patent licensing fees as the patents are expiring"

      Umm.. What?

      Now that Apple is refusing to pay licensing fees to Qualcomm, iPhone prices have changed how, exactly? You're saying $20 in royalties on a shiny $800 phone from Cupertino is excessive?

      Apparently Mediatek's modem technology, like Icera's, comes up short.

      Explain how this is Qualcomm's fault.

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  2. Steve Davies 3 Silver badge

    Where is the smoking gun?

    Oh wait, there it is... The tipoff to the FTC about QC that came from a phone number at Apple...

    Not saying it is true but I wonder if that is what QC are hoping.

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  3. Hans 1
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    I guess that will teach people/companies to file a claim with the FTC ... Koh has the intellect of an oyster ... unless some bank transfer could explain it ? I dunno, fishy, to say the least ...

    grammar nazi icon because it looks like a judge

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  4. Warm Braw

    What's interesting about this...

    ... is that none of it apparently has anything to do with whether there is an anti-trust case to answer. Who or what might have caused the FTC to start investigating doesn't seem to have any relevance to what they might subsequently have found and any prosecution would presumably depend only on evidence available to the court.

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    1. nijam Silver badge
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      Re: What's interesting about this...

      ... so it's absolutely vital that Qualcomm must never ever find out what, specifically, the documents allege they have done. They must be found guilty!

      Or have I misunderstood what commentards are saying here?

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