Qualcomm petitioned the General Court to annul the fine entirely or substantially reduce it. The Court largely upheld the Commission’s penalty, only slightly revising the fine down to €238.7M.
The chipmaker had raised 15 pleas in law challenging the EU’s penalty. The General Court rejected all of them except one concerning the fee calculation, which it accepted partially, finding that the Commission “departed, without justification, from the methodology laid down in its 2006 guidelines [for calculating fees].”