Judge throws out the last claim by Qualcomm against Texas Instruments A Delaware judge has thrown out the last claim against Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) filed by Qualcomm Inc. in a licensing dispute between the two companies, ending the current round of litigation, TI said in a release Wednesday.Qualcomm asserted last year that TI broke the terms of a cross-licensing agreement when it revealed some information about the deal. In July, the Delaware Court of Chancery ruled that TI’s disclosures were not a material breach of the cross-licensing agreement. After dropping its quest for damages from TI in August, Qualcomm filed a separate claim asking the judge to reconsider the ruling.A finding of a material breach would have allowed Qualcomm to break the cross-licensing agreement, but the same court ruled again on Wednesday that the agreement must stand. This puts an end to the outstanding claims in the case, TI said. However, Qualcomm plans to appeal the court’s latest ruling, a Qualcomm spokeswoman said. The San Diego company is disappointed with the court’s decision, she said.TI and Qualcomm have an agreement in which each company is entitled to intellectual property from the other, such as Qualcomm’s CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) technology or TI’s DSP (digital signal processor) technology. Qualcomm developed the CDMA mobile phone standard and TI would lose out on a significant amount of business if it was no longer able to manufacture chips for CDMA mobile phones. Technology IndustrySoftware Development