A federal district judge denied Qualcomm’s request for a stay in ...
A federal district judge denied Qualcomm’s request for a stay in a patent suit by Broadcom. The rejection Monday clears the way for Qualcomm to file an appeal with the U.S. Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit and seek…
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a stay there. In Santa Ana, Calif., in late December, U.S. District Judge James Selna, who rejected Qualcomm’s stay petition, granted Broadcom’s request to enjoin Qualcomm products said to infringe Broadcom patents (CD Jan 3 p1). Stifel Nicolaus analyst Blair Levin said Qualcomm may be hard-pressed to get a stay from the Federal Circuit because Judge Selna’s Dec. 31 ruling delayed the effectiveness of the injunction on products related to the patents until Jan. 31, 2009, to give Qualcomm time to develop work-arounds. Selna’s denial of a stay doesn’t affect chips infringing a video compression patent, which were not covered by the delayed effective date. A Qualcomm official said the company had no comment.