Apple Is Expanding Its War With Qualcomm

Apple has opened a new front in its global patent war with Qualcomm. From a report: The Cupertino, Calif.-based company has sued Qualcomm in a U.K. court, accusing the chipmaker of violating patents and design concepts Apple owns. Details on exactly which patents Qualcomm has violated and why Apple believes Qualcomm has violated the patents were not disclosed in the public court records, according to Bloomberg, which earlier reported on the lawsuit. The lawsuit is the latest in a string of disputes Apple and Qualcomm have engaged in around the world. The main dispute resides in the U.S., where Apple has accused Qualcomm of using its position as a prominent chipmaker to hurt competition in the mobile marketplace. Apple, which has used Qualcomm chips for its iPhone's wireless connectivity, claims Qualcomm owes the company $1 billion in rebates the chip maker allegedly held back after Apple spoke to South Korean regulators about Qualcomm's business practices.

Apple's philosophy

[postmortem]

You really haven't won... ...until all others have lost.

Shakespeare for the rescue!

[KiloByte]

There's a simple solution for this plague on the mankind, proposed in Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2.

Re:

[dgatwood]

... stealing a cade of herrings?

Re:

[geek]

... stealing a cade of herrings?

Shh, lest the Herrings hear you

Re:

[dgatwood]

Nah. They're deaf. This also means that they have to learn through their eyes. Fortunately, they're well-red.

Re:

[Gravis Zero]

Shakespeare? How about something with a bit more class. [youtube.com]

Lawsuits

[Anonymous Coward]

You know a company has run out of new ideas when it goes into full lawsuit mode. My bet is that because Qualcomm is defining 5G while Apple has barely any contributions in that space they are trying to make up for it by filing these lawsuits. Also, the USPTO is to be blamed for this mess. They basically rubber stamp patent applications yet somehow take arbitrarily long times to get back to you. I mean I have stuff filed in 2015 that I have no idea wtf the USPTO is sitting on it for this long. For all I know

FRAND

[organgtool]

We all know that Qualcomm must license their wireless technology patents under FRAND terms (for comically cheap prices) in order for their technologies to be included in the standard, but are Qualcomm forced or sell Apple chips or could they tell Apple to make their own damned chips?

Did they dare

[m2shariy]

To make a rectangular chip?

I hope they lose

[AndyKron]

Even if Apple if right I hope they lose. As always: Fuck Apple