Another day, another chapter in the long-running patent battle between mobile technology giants Qualcomm and Broadcom: a federal court of appeals has vacated a ban on importing mobile phone handsets that use Qualcomm-made technology found to infringe on patents held by Broadcom. While the appeals court upheld the finding that Qualcomm infringed on a Broadcom battery-saving patent, the court also ruled that the International Trade Commission did not have the authority to impose an import ban on downstream manufacturers who used the offending chip in their devices.
