On July 23, 2014, Dacheng's Beijing-based partner Deng
Zhisong was interviewed by Economic News ("Jingji xinxi
lianbo" in Chinese pinyin), a CCTV-2 program on the
eye-catching anti-trust investigation into Qualcomm.
Since this February when the National Development and Reform
Commission ("NDRC") announced an investigation into
Qualcomm, the company's chief executive has come to China three
times to face NDRC's challenge over the collection of high
patent licensing fees and mobile phone tie-in arrangement.
In Deng's opinion, the exceedingly high patent licensing
fees sought after by Qualcomm constitutes "unfairly high
price" prohibited by Section 1, Article 17 of China's
Anti-Monopoly Law and "abuse of a dominant position" by a
standard-essential patent holder, which necessitates the
intervention of the anti-monopoly law to strike a balance. In the
meantime, open sources show that half of Qualcomm's $20bn
revenue come from China. If the investigation ends up
