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The U.S. International Trade Commission ruled yesterday that the manufacture of a Qualcomm chipset infringes on the intellectual property of Broadcom. As a result of this, U.S. Customs officials have been ordered to block the import of mobile phones featuring the offending chip.

Sascha Segan of PC Magazine makes it clear how ridiculous the Qualcomm ban is:

Every single one of these cases needs to go into mandatory arbitration. Kids, if you can’t work it out yourselves, it’s time for the teacher to divide the cookies. But the “teacher” here seems to have decided, instead, that because three idiots got into a brawl, nobody in the entire school building can have cookies. That isn’t justice.

The rest of Sascha’s article is far and away the best read I’ve had this week. He is absolutely spot-on and brings the mandatory measure of spite to his coverage, reminding everyone just how absurd the behavior of this industry is.

It’s going to take a while before anyone starts to defend the rights of the millions of pieces of China in the mobile industry’s shop. The regulating shopkeepers seem perfectly content with having their customers start brawls with each other with seemingly zero regard for us, the delicate cups and bowls.