Qualcomm is battling a May 2019 choice by a lower court judge for the challenge regulator.Qualcomm on Thursday will ask a US claims court to invert a decision that it mishandled its situation as a mammoth of the semiconductor business and cheated cell phone creators for access to its licensed innovation.

The San Francisco-based US ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral contentions in a firmly watched antitrust case the US Federal Trade Commission brought against Qualcomm in mid 2017, during the last long stretches of previous President Barack Obama’s organization.

The three judges hearing the contentions will probably take a while to give their decision yet could give some sign on Thursday of how they will run the show.

San Diego, California-based Qualcomm, which supplies modem chips that interface telephones and different gadgets to remote information systems, is battling a May 2019 choice by a lower court judge for the challenge controller.

In that choice, US District Judge Lucy Koh said Qualcomm’s patent permitting rehearses had “choked challenge” and hurt customers. The ninth Circuit put Koh’s decision on pause while it thought about Qualcomm’s allure.

In an abnormal move, an attorney for the US Department of Justice will contend on the side of Qualcomm at Thursday’s hearing.

The Justice Department shares authority over US antitrust laws with the FTC. The two offices seldom have such open contradictions, said Jonathan Rubin, an antitrust attorney at MoginRubin.

Notwithstanding commanding the modem chip showcase, Qualcomm produces billions of dollars yearly from permitting a tremendous arrangement of licenses on remote correspondence innovation. A portion of Qualcomm’s licenses are fundamental to industry benchmarks, and the organization has promised to permit them to other industry players on reasonable and sensible terms.

The FTC’s considerate claim blamed Qualcomm for utilizing its worthwhile store of licenses to support its chip business since it would not permit them to match chip providers, denying them the protected innovation expected to make contending chips. Rather, the FTC asserted, Qualcomm constrained telephone creators to consent to permit arrangements for the licenses, declining to sell them its own chips without a substantial permit set up.

Judge Koh’s decision for the FTC would constrain Qualcomm to permit its licenses to adversaries, for example, Taiwan-based MediaTek Inc and renegotiate its permit manages handset producers.

The FTC’s case was upheld by Apple, which documented its own US antitrust claim against Qualcomm. The two organizations settled that case in April 2019 after two years of progressively severe fights in court.