Smartphone patent wars

exactly what we're talking about today.

That is one version of the smartphone wars.

Today, we're looking at the big legal fights in the 2010s between phone makers over patents, like Apple suing Samsung over the use of round corners.

But relevant to the show is that Qualcomm, a telecom company, invented and patented a lot of the cellular technology that goes inside smartphones like 3G and 4G.

And they're applying those lessons to some of the themes we're seeing today.

Christie is a policy, legal, and communications consultant at CTG Advisory, and Curti is vice president and chief economist of global technology at Cornerstone Research.

They walk me through the history of these smartphone wars and patent wars, what they saw up close working for Qualcomm.

We talk in this conversation a lot about being under fire from the government.