TruePosition might have had a better chance before the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its Twombly decision in 2006.

FORBES: Judge Dismisses TruePosition Case -- With Invitation To Try Again

Qualcomm, in a legal response to the suit, says it has done nothing to prevent TruePosition from participating at ETSI.

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For such a case to fly, Judge Kelley said, TruePosition must come up with direct evidence of a conspiracy, such as memos detailing discussions among competitors.

FORBES: Judge Dismisses TruePosition Case -- With Invitation To Try Again

That history is coming back to haunt TruePosition, Salen said.

FORBES: Liberty Media Unit Says Standards Manipulated By Competitors

Kelley said TruePosition failed to present facts suggesting the competitors agreed in advance to shut it out of the standards-setting process, instead of merely doing so for their own independent reasons.

FORBES: Judge Dismisses TruePosition Case -- With Invitation To Try Again

That history may have come back to haunt TruePosition.

FORBES: Judge Dismisses TruePosition Case -- With Invitation To Try Again

Competitors say TruePosition faces serious problems of its own.

FORBES: Liberty Media Unit Says Standards Manipulated By Competitors

TruePosition argued it deserved a hearing before the standards board determining the next generation of location technology for cellular phones, since it is used in about half the phones in the U.S. today.

FORBES: Judge Dismisses TruePosition Case -- With Invitation To Try Again

Carriers using the GSM standard turned to TruePosition after the government mandated location technology for 911 calls and they were unable to achieve the accuracy they needed with a competing system developed by Ericsson and others.

FORBES: Judge Dismisses TruePosition Case -- With Invitation To Try Again

Carriers using the GSM standard turned to TruePosition after the government mandated location technology for 911 calls and they were unable to achieve the accuracy they needed with a competing system developed by Ericsson and others, Salen said.

FORBES: Liberty Media Unit Says Standards Manipulated By Competitors

In a lawsuit in federal court in Philadelphia, TruePosition accuses cellphone-equipment manufacturers LM Ericsson, Qualcomm and Alcatel Lucent of conspiring with the European Telecommunications Standards Institute to use the emerging standards for 4G phones to block it from the market.

FORBES: Liberty Media Unit Says Standards Manipulated By Competitors