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China To Feel Qualcomm's Legal Lash-June 27, 2016 |
The Chinese are about to feel the lash of Qualcomm’s fearsome legal department.
At the height of Qualcomm’s litigious spree towards the end of the last decade the company was spending $200 million a year on legal fees trying to assert its rights to exploit CDMA technology which it was obliged to license under FRAND terms.
Nokia was the main recipient of Qualcomm’s ire but there were many others.
Memorably Qualcomm’s then CEO Paul Jacobs claimed: “We are not a litigious company”.