Qualco­mm lost in an antitr­ust lawsui­t brough­t by the Federa­l Trade Commis­sion earlie­r this yearThe US Justice Department asked a federal appeals court to pause the enforcement of a sweeping antitrust ruling against mobile chip supplier Qualcomm on Tuesday, citing support from the Energy Department and Defense Department. US judge blocks Qualcomm effort to put antitrust ruling on holdUS District Judge Lucy Koh ruled that Qualcomm had engaged in anticompetitive patent-licensing practices to keep a monopoly on the mobile chip market. Koh ordered Qualcomm to license its technology to rival chipmakers, which include firms like Taiwan’s MediaTek Inc and Huawei’s HiSilicon chip unit. The Justice Department’s antitrust division had asked Koh to hold an additional hearing about potential penalties before she made her ruling, but she declined to do so. In a friend of the court filing on Tuesday, Justice Department attorneys argued her ruling was “erroneous” and called her decision to forego additional hearings “unlawful.”FTC objects to Qualcomm submission of Apple documentsEnergy Department officials also filed in favour of a pause.

Source: The Express Tribune July 17, 2019 08:15 UTC