Law360 Quotes Prof. Cotter on Upcoming FTC v. Qualcomm Oral Argument

On February 13, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will hear oral argument in Qualcomm’s appeal from a district court ruling last year finding Qualcomm’s patent licensing practices to violate federal antitrust law. A February 11 Law360 article, titled “FTC Goes Toe-To-Toe-To-Toe With Qualcomm, DOJ,” highlights the upcoming argument and quotes Professor Tom Cotter as stating that, if the panel disagrees with the lower court’s finding that Qualcomm had an antitrust duty to deal, it will have to decide if that portion of the ruling “can be separated from the rest of Judge Koh’s opinion or if it dooms her findings in their entirety.”