Qualcomm To Pay Broadcom $19.6M

A federal court has sided with Broadcom in its patent suit against Qualcomm. The jury has ordered Qualcomm to pay $20 million in damages for infringing on three patents owned by Broadcom.

The lawsuit was originally filed way back in May of 2005 and alleged that five of its patents had been violated, but during the course of the trials, Broadcom ditched one of the claims while the court stayed the case with respect to a second. Notably, none of the patents that were infringed upon were "developed specifically in connection with cellular technology or standards," but the seemingly willful wrongdoing will indeed cost Qualcomm just shy of $20 million -- that is, until a trial judge mulls this thing over and determines if the firm should face any additional financial punishment "based on the finding of willfulness."

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