In the early morning of September 9th, Beijing time, Bloomberg News, Qualcomm company lost in a patent battle with Apple, the request for four Apple foundries to continue to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties failed to obtain The judges support that these royalties relate to the patented technology used in the iPhone.
Qualcomm’s request to the court to force Apple’s four Asian foundries to continue paying royalties was rejected by a federal judge in San Diego, including Foxconn and Pegatron. Before Apple stopped returning the fees paid to the above-mentioned foundry companies, these foundry companies also suspended the payment of royalties to Qualcomm. In addition, Qualcomm also asked the court to limit its litigation disputes with Apple in the United States, but it was also rejected by the judge on the grounds that not all legal disputes between the two companies could be resolved by a US court.
US District Judge Gonzalo Curiel said that before the court learned more about the case, Qualcomm "failed to give sufficient reason from the law" to ask the foundry for royalties. The legal issues in this case are complex and novel, and the court will resolve it quickly and cautiously in the trial process.
Apple said in a statement that it is a pleasure for the judge to "believe that Qualcomm must first determine reasonable value for its technology and defend its business conduct in court before forcing Apple and others to pay too high and unreasonable expenses. These high unreasonable expenses are equivalent to taxing our own inventions."
Apple said it is willing to pay "reasonable prices" for using Qualcomm's technology. "But for many years, Qualcomm has been unreasonable and refused to talk about a reasonable price for a connected component it supplies."
A Qualcomm spokesperson said that although the company was disappointed with the court's ruling, the company acknowledged that its request had higher procedural resistance.
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