“Qualcomm has unveiled explosive charges against Apple for stealing ‘vast swaths’ of its confidential information and trade secrets for the purpose of improving the performance of chip sets provided by Qualcomm competitor Intel, according to a filing with the Superior Court of California,” David Faber reports for CNBC. “The allegations are contained in a complaint that Qualcomm hopes the court will amend to its existing lawsuit against Apple for breaching the so called master software agreement that Apple signed when it became a customer of Qualcomm’s earlier this decade.”
“The two companies have been embroiled in direct and indirect litigation around the globe centered on Apple’s unwillingness to have its suppliers pay Qualcomm royalties it deems excessive for the iPhone,” Faber reports. “Monday’s filing can be seen as the latest salvo in that dispute, designed to put pressure on Apple to settle.”
“In its complaint, Qualcomm says it is making the latest charges after discovery in the current lawsuit allowed it to unearth evidence that Apple engineers repeatedly provided source code and other confidential information to Intel engineers so they could improve the performance of Intel’s chip sets,” Faber reports. “Qualcomm does not provide direct evidence to support the allegations, but does make reference to back and forth between Apple and Intel engineers that are based on correspondence between those engineers that was found during discovery.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Careful Qualcomm, your desperation is showing. That’s not a good look for a company on a legal losing streak and which really seems to want to settle.
Qualcomm’s unreasonable, illogical, and irrational licensing scam, which charges a percentage of the total cost of all components in the phone, even non-Qualcomm components, must end.
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EU regulators charge Qualcomm with additional violation in pricing case – July 19, 2018
Apple petitions U.S. Patent Office to invalidate four Qualcomm patents – June 22, 2018
Apple brings 5G and national security into Qualcomm patent battle – June 18, 2018
Analyst: Apple, Qualcomm legal fight could settle this year – June 11, 2018
Apple CEO Tim Cook to be deposed in Qualcomm lawsuit – April 6, 2018
Judge Koh sets aside sanctions order against Apple in FTC v. Qualcomm antitrust case – February 8, 2018
Apple gets support from Lawyers for Civil Justice in fight against discovery sanctions – February 1, 2018
EU fines chipmaker Qualcomm $1.2 billion for paying Apple to shut out rivals’ chips – January 24, 2018
Apple sanctioned in Qualcomm FTC case for withholding documents – December 22, 2017
Apple countersues Qualcomm for patent infringement – November 29, 2017
Apple designing next-gen iPhones, iPads that would dump Qualcomm components – October 31, 2017
Sheesh … what’s next, sexual harassment … 😆
Desperation tactics from the greedy, over-entitled, over-reaching and clueless knows no bounds. Let’s hope thieving Qualcomm gets the total legal comeuppance it richly deserves.