Tesla and other auto companies urge FTC to appeal against the Qualcomm case.

SMM: it is reported that on Aug. 24, automakers including Tesla, Ford, Honda and Daimler and some technology companies urged the Federal Trade Commission ((FTC)) to appeal after FTC lost a patent licensing case with chip supplier Qualcomm.

Earlier this month, a US appeals court overturned a lower court ruling on Qualcomm and announced that Qualcomm had won the lawsuit against FTC. The court also reversed an order requiring Qualcomm to change its patent licensing practices.

In May 2019, San Jose District Judge Lucy Koh of California ruled on the dispute between FTC and Qualcomm, arguing that Qualcomm had hurt consumers by requiring handset makers to sign patent licensing agreements before selling chips.

In order to connect vehicles to the Internet, more and more car companies are starting to use chips in their vehicles, which requires them to sign patent agreements for communications standards such as 5G. Carmakers have previously argued that the price of connected cars could rise if Qualcomm wins the case.

On Aug. 11, Qualcomm won the appeal by a jury of three judges of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. In a letter sent on Aug. 24, the carmaker and Qualcomm rivals Intel and MediaTek urged FTC to seek a "joint" retrial of the case by all appeals courts.

"if the court's ruling takes effect, it is likely to encourage the abuse of market forces obtained through collaborative standard-setting, thereby destabilizing the standard ecosystem," the companies said. " A spokesman for FTC declined to comment.

"2020 (second) China Automotive New Materials Application Summit Forum"

It was solemnly held in Shanghai from September 17 to 18.

During the reform period of the "four modernizations of the automobile", intelligent network connection, new energy, lightweight and intelligent manufacturing entered the field of the automobile industry, and the automobile era was reinterpreted. The surging changes require the industry to continue to integrate and innovate, and quickly promote the development rate of automobile enterprises. With the emergence of self-driving and intelligent cars, Internet companies, which are not active in the automotive field, have more opportunities to show their talents; the double points policy is becoming an important driving force for the development of China's new energy vehicle industry; in the face of environmental constraints, car companies speed up the application of advanced lightweight components and technologies to achieve vehicle weight loss. With the continuous promotion of the strategies of "Industrial 4.0" and "made in China 2025", intelligent manufacturing has become a new challenge of upgrading and transformation.

Under the guidance of the Shanghai Economic and Informatization Commission and the Shanghai Federation of Industrial economy, in order to accelerate the application of automobile lightweight and product lines, the Shanghai Nonferrous Metals Industry Association, together with Shanghai Automotive Engineering Society, Suzhou Die casting Technology Association and Shanghai Nonferrous Network, jointly held the "2020 (second) China Automotive New Materials Application Summit Forum". Jointly discuss material solutions, co-casting automobile industry chain green development closed loop, and strive to build an excellent communication and cooperation platform for the whole automobile industry chain, and lead the creation of advanced automobile industry clusters.

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