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FTC v Qualcomm Inc

969 F.3d 974 (9th Cir. 2020)

JurisdictionUnited States

CourtUnited States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Year2020

StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

The Ninth Circuit reversed the district court's antitrust finding against Qualcomm, holding that licensing practices for standard-essential patents at the chipmaker level were not anticompetitive where rival chipmakers could still compete.

Area of Law

competition

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