Qualcomm Gets U.S. Support in Bid to Pause FTC Antitrust Ruling

Susan Decker, Bloomberg News

Nakul Duggal, senior vice president of automotive product management at Qualcomm Technologies Inc., is silhouetted while speaking during the company's news conference at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., on Monday, Jan. 7, 2019. The company’s chips will be in 30 devices with 5G connections coming to the market later in 2019, Qualcomm said Monday at the annual CES show in Las Vegas. , Bloomberg

(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Justice Department urged a federal appeals court to put on hold an order that would force Qualcomm Inc. to change how it licenses its patents, saying the case “threatens competition, innovation, and national security.”

The filing Tuesday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit puts the Justice Department on the opposite side of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, an independent government agency that filed the antitrust lawsuit against the chipmaker.

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