We are pleased with the Court of Appeals’ complete, unanimous reversal of the district court’s judgment. The decision validates our business model and licensing program and underscores the tremendous contributions that Qualcomm has made to the industry.
Qualcomm is also very pleased that the full Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied the FTC’s petition for rehearing. This leaves intact the panel’s unanimous decision which reversed and vacated the district court ruling in its entirety.
“The fact that not one judge on the Ninth Circuit thought it necessary to consider the merits of the FTC’s petition or to even ask for a response from Qualcomm validates the strength and clarity of the panel’s thorough analysis and conclusions. We thank the court for its time and efforts,”
- Don Rosenberg, executive vice president and general counsel of Qualcomm
Qualcomm uses its one-of-a-kind expertise to tackle systems-level engineering problems that can take a decade or more to solve. We achieved this by investing more than $60 billion in research and development since our founding, and over the last decade we have committed approximately 20 percent of our annual revenues to R&D efforts. That commitment has enabled us to invent many of the foundational technologies at the heart of 3G, 4G, and now 5G wireless products and networks.
We don’t keep our inventions – covered by over 140,000 patents and patent applications – to ourselves. We share them in a variety of ways, including through a chip-agnostic licensing program that allows our customers and licensees to build upon our technologies and create amazing products, including smartphones and the growing number of connected devices.
Does our technology transfer program work? In a word, yes. Mobile has not only become the world’s largest technology platform, it has achieved that scale faster than any technology in human history. Today, Qualcomm has hundreds of agreements, and more than 13 billion licensed mobile devices have shipped worldwide. Thanks to the Qualcomm team and collaboration within the entire mobile industry, the next generation of wireless, 5G, debuted a year ahead of schedule. Those numbers and the ever-growing mobile ecosystem support our unwavering belief in the effectiveness of our program to enable competition, both beget and transform industries, and enrich lives everywhere.
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Declaration of Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Ellen M. Lord
Declaration of Department of Energy Chief Information Officer Max Everett
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Over 30 years of our mobile invention has led to the Invention Age. The foundational technology and intelligence we put into 3G and 4G is bringing us 5G, connected cars, and a true Internet of Things. But more than that, our history of invention is kick-starting a new age of possibility.
We invented foundational technologies of 5G, which is creating an intelligently connected future for people and things. Read how 5G is bringing the world a platform of innovations, redefining communication, powering the digital economy with the possibility of over $12 trillion in future growth, and much more.
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