Source: wccftech.com --- Sunday, October 15, 2017
The legal battle between Qualcomm and Apple has been taken to a new echelon, with the chip manufacturer attempting to completely ban the sale of iPhones in China. According to sources close to the matter, the tech company has filed the lawsuits in a Beijing intellectual property court and claims patent infringement while seeking injunctive relief. Latest iPhone-Sales-Ban Lawsuit From Qualcomm Are Based on Non-Standard Patents and Are Focused on Technologies Running in the Latest Phones Qualcomm’s current lawsuits filed in China cover power management and a touch-screen technology commonly known as Force Touch which Apple employs that in current-gen iPhones. According to Qualcomm, these are a few of the many examples of the latter’s technology that Apple uses in its devices to improve functionality and generate a hefty amount of profit. According to Qualcomm’s spokeswoman Christine Trimble, Apple is yet to pay its supplier for using that particular tech in its devices. “Apple employs technologies invented by Qualcomm without paying for them.” As for Apple, the tech giant states that the claim has no merit accompanying it as it states the following: “In our many years of ongoing negotiations with Qualcomm, these patents have never been discussed. Like their other courtroom maneuvers, we believe this latest legal effort will fail.” According to an analyst at Canaccord Genuity, Mike Walkley, there could be another way to convince Ap ...
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