Qualcomm sure has a bit of legal good fortune to be thankful for today. The International Trade Commission (ITC) has just thrown out one of the lawuits brought against Qualcomm that would have barred the chipmaker’s chipsets from being sold in the US. Following on a Dutch court’s recent decision to throw out Nokia’s patent licensing case against Qualcomm, the ITC dismissed the US-based suit on grounds that Nokia and Qualcomm are currently in arbitration regarding the issue.
As far as the ITC is concerned, the Qualcomm v. Nokia case is shut and closed. “The case is finished at the ITC,” said ITC staffer John Greer. But, that doesn’t mean Qualcomm is out of the legal-woods just yet. The US chipmaker is facing a number of patent-infringement lawsuits in a handful of other countries. But, with the US mobile chipset market open for business, we’re sure Qualcomm’s legal department is having a Thanksgiving Day celebration of their very own.
[Via: Reuters]