Qualcomm Incorporated today announced that it is filing a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) alleging that Apple has engaged in the unlawful importation and sale of iPhones that infringe one or more claims of six Qualcomm patents covering key technologies that enable important features and functions in iPhones.
Qualcomm is requesting that the ITC institute an investigation into Apple’s infringing imports and ultimately issue a Limited Exclusion Order (LEO) to bar importation of those iPhones and other products into the United States to stop Apple’s unlawful and unfair use of Qualcomm’s technology. The Company is seeking the LEO against iPhones that use cellular baseband processors other than those supplied by Qualcomm’s affiliates. Additionally, Qualcomm is seeking a Cease and Desist Order barring further sales of infringing Apple products that have already been imported and to halt the marketing, advertising, demonstration, warehousing of inventory for distribution and use of those imported products in the United States.
“Qualcomm’s inventions are at the heart of every iPhone and extend well beyond modem technologies or cellular standards,” said Don Rosenberg, executive vice president and general counsel of Qualcomm, in a statement. “The patents we are asserting represent six important technologies, out of a portfolio of thousands, and each is vital to iPhone functions. Apple continues to use Qualcomm’s technology while refusing to pay for it. These lawsuits seek to stop Apple’s infringement of six of our patented technologies.”
Qualcomm claims that the six patents, U.S. Patent No. 8,633,936, U.S. Patent No. 8,698,558, U.S. Patent No. 8,487,658, U.S. Patent No. 8,838,949, U.S. Patent No. 9,535,490, and U.S. Patent No. 9,608,675 enable high performance in a smartphone while extending battery life. According to Qualcomm, each of the patents does so in a different way for different popular smartphone features. While the technologies covered by the patents are central to the performance of the iPhone, the six asserted patents are not essential to practice any standards in a mobile device or subject to a commitment to offer to license such patents, Qualcomm claims.
Qualcomm today also filed a complaint against Apple in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California alleging that Apple infringes the same six patents in the complaint filed in the ITC. The complaint seeks damages and injunctive relief.
Qualcomm expects that the ITC investigation will commence in August and that the case will be tried next year.
Source: Qualcomm Inc.
MacDailyNews Take: Put down the pipe, Qualcomm.
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In case anybody missed the earlier discussions of this subject, the ITC is a US Government agency, created over a century ago and run by an independent panel of appointed Commissioners, a majority of whom are Republicans at the moment.
The chairman of the ITC is a Democrat.
I’d love to give Qualcomm and it’s CEO some pretty severe injunctive pain, rueing the day it unfathomably & greedily stepped beyond it’s fair licensing bounds (along with some choice flogging and tar & feathering).
it’s = it is
its = possession
“I’d love to give Qualcomm and it’s [its] CEO . . .”
” . . . it’s [its] fair licensing bounds . . .”
Precision of communication is the key to making one’s case effectively. The above error has become pandemic among supposedly educated writers of American English, and that is truly sad.
Apple’s auto spell checker is problematic in this respect, because it often automatically and annoyingly replaces “its” with “it’s”.
A place where some application of AI would be useful.
“You’re”, not “your” is another one Apple needs to work out, especially in text messages, chat, etc.
Not everyone participating in this site is an American.
And a little tolorance wont hurt anyone…
You must be real smart. You know good grammar real good.
Get over yourself, you understood it, right?
I do my best and if you’ve seen my posts here before you know that’s rare. I proofread to catch such minor grammatical errors but occasionally they slip by whether it’s me or auto-correct. I hope someone isn’t scrutinizing you so closely as you would realize how annoying it is.
So is Qualcomm wanting even more than the excessive patent royalties it has already collected?
I can see all the patent attorneys rubbing their hands together in greedy glee over this dispute.
If Apple cannot prevail against a backwater forgery outfit like samdung, imagine how qualtroll will fare against the Apple kingdom.
Wow, the interns at Qualcomm tapped the kegs early today…
This is merely more of the same forking out of 💲💲💲💲💲 to lawyers in an attempt to look all ForMidAblE and stuff.
Meanwhile, the trial awaits…