Qualcomm Inc., the San Diego based wireless telecommunications research and development company, announced on Wednesday it forecasted that the federal judge's order that it must stop marketing certain of its products will have an short-term impact.

U.S. District Judge James V. Selna in Santa Ana, Calif., was the one who gave the above mentioned order according to which Qualcomm must the manufacturing and marketing of cellular-phone chipsets and software that infringe three patents of Broadcom Corp., a supplier of integrated circuits for broadband communications based in Irvine, California.

The statement didn’t give any details about the impact. Qualcomm informed that it’s already developing workaround solutions for two of the above mentioned patents, covering simultaneous- network-access and push-to-talk technologies.

As for the products infringing Broadcom's video-encoding patent, the San Diego based company made public new chips and said it expects to have hardware and software workarounds available in the first quarter.

However, Qualcomm also stated it is evaluating its legal options and eventual appeals aren’t out of the question.

Selna’s ruling is the latest in a series of actions in the long-running dispute between the two chip sellers. In July 2007, the U.S. International Trade Commission ruled that Qualcomm infringed Broadcom patents and banned the Sand Diego based company from importing chips to the U.S., but the Commission allowed mobile phone vendors to ship the chips in their products.

"The ITC order did not go nearly as far in prohibiting other activities from Qualcomm," said Broadcom’s vice president of intellectual property litigation, David Rosmann.

"The U.S. District Court order has in some respects much broader remedies. So the activities that are going to be barred by this injunction go a long way to stopping Qualcomm's continued operations in support of these infringing chips," he added.