Qualcomm is facing tough times after Apple iced it out of its latest iPhones and sued the chipmaker earlier this year. But, Qualcomm’s CEO offered a positive spin on the situation Wednesday, saying the company’s timeline to reach a resolution remains on track. Granted, no specific time frame was mentioned. “We have continued to have …
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The legal battle continues. Apple isn’t talking to chipmaker Qualcomm “at any level” to settle their long-running patent dispute, according to Reuters. The iPhone maker is reportedly continuing to prepare for trial. Qualcomm declined to comment ahead of its earnings report later Wednesday. Apple declined to comment. The two companies have been fighting over patents since January 2017, when Apple …
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Qualcomm has to license its wireless chip patents to its competitors, a judge ruled Tuesday. District Court Judge Lucy Koh granted the US Federal Trade Commission’s motion for partial summary judgment in its suit against Qualcomm. The FTC had sought a ruling that declared “two industry agreements obligate Qualcomm to license its essential patents to competing modem chip suppliers.” Koh …
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Apple might’ve infringed a Qualcomm patent, but that doesn’t mean iPhones should be banned from sale, a new US International Trade Commission filing said Friday. Qualcomm in late 2017 had asked the ITC to prevent iPhones that had Intel 4G chips from being sold because of allegations of patent infringement. Administrative Law Judge Thomas Pender on Friday agreed that Apple …
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Apple must pay Canadian patent licensing company WiLan $145.1 million in damages for patent infringement, a California jury ruled Wednesday. The jury said that some iPhone models infringed two WiLan wireless communications technology patents. One of those is for a “method and apparatus for bandwidth request protocols in a wireless communication system” and the other is for “adaptive call admission …
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Apple appears to be making some big changes to the chips in its upcoming iPhones — and that could mean your next iPhone downloads data slower than rival Android devices. Qualcomm, a major supplier of 4G chips for smartphones, on Wednesday said it doesn’t expect to supply modems for any upcoming iPhones. “We believe Apple intends to solely use our …
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The long-running patent battle between Apple and Samsung is finally over. The two phone giants on Wednesday notified a district court in San Jose, California, that “they have agreed to drop and settle their remaining claims and counterclaims in this matter.” Judge Lucy Koh, of the Northern District of California, signed the order dismissing all suits with prejudice, which means …
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Apple’s trying a different tactic in its battle with Qualcomm — asking for the chipmaker’s patents to be declared invalid. The iPhone maker on Thursday filed petitions with the US Patent and Trademark Office, asking for the four Qualcomm patents be canceled, according to Bloomberg. Those patents are at issue in a fight between the companies over licensing fees that …
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The jury may have made a decision, but the fight isn’t over. Samsung asked a court last Thursday to either dismiss the judgment in its phone patent fight with Apple or retry the case in which the damages were decided. In a 34-page post-trial motion filed with the US District Court in San Jose, California, Samsung says the jury’s $539 million verdict …
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Samsung must pay Apple $539 million for infringing five patents with Android phones it sold in 2010 and 2011, a jury decided Thursday in a legal fight that dates back seven years. The unanimous decision, in the US District Court in San Jose in the heart of Silicon Valley, is just about halfway between what the two largest mobile phone …
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