A hearing with ties to Broadcom Corp.’s battle against Qualcomm Inc. gets under way Monday in Washington, D.C.
Finland’s Nokia Corp., the top maker of wireless phones, is set for hearings in a dispute with Qualcomm at the U.S. International Trade Commission.
Qualcomm alleges Nokia infringed on patents related to technology for GSM phones. The complaint was filed in 2006.
Hearings in the dispute are set for the next two weeks, according to the International Trade Commission.
A decision could come by March.
Like Broadcom, Nokia is at odds with Qualcomm over its business of licensing key technology for wireless phones.
Nokia and Broadcom have emerged as allies in their battles against Qualcomm.
Nokia has been in a legal battle with Qualcomm after part of a cross-licensing deal over technology patents that expired in April.
Analysts estimate Nokia has paid Qualcomm around $500 million per year, according to Reuters.
The company is seeking better licensing terms from Qualcomm under a cross-licensing deal.
Nokia filed its own ITC complaint against Qualcomm in August. It charges Qualcomm with infringing on patents related to GSM/WCDMA and CDMA2000 chipsets used in wireless phones.
In June, the ITC ruled that Qualcomm had infringed a Broadcom patent and banned imports of new advanced wireless phones using some of Qualcomm’s chips.
In August, the U.S. Trade Representative upheld the ban.
