An opposing group, the Innovation Alliance, generally represents smaller patent holders, but also includes firms, such as Qualcomm, which rely on licensing patents that are used on other products such as cellphones.

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An opposing group, the Innovation Alliance, generally represents smaller patent holders, but also includes firms, such as Qualcomm (nasdaq: QCOM - news - people ), which rely on licensing patents that are used on other products such as cellphones.

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Any such move would lead to a broad alliance inevitably including the opposing PD (headed by Pierluigi Bersani) and the social conservatives of the UDC.

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