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According to Qualcomm, the patent involved in this case enables consumers to adjust and reset the size and appearance of photos, and manage applications through the touch screen when browsing, searching and quitting applications on mobile phones.
Executive vice president and general counsel Tang? Rosenberg said: "Apple has always benefited from our intellectual property rights, but refused to pay us for it."
Apple responded that "trying to ban our products is another desperate move by Qualcomm, and the company's illegal behavior is being investigated by regulators around the world."
First of all, we should know where Qualcomm is and dare to challenge Apple. Since Apple's market value is one of the highest in the world, why did Qualcomm ban the iPhone when it said it was banned?
In fact, Qualcomm is almost unknown in the mobile phone industry. Qualcomm is an American chip manufacturer, and Qualcomm has accumulated a large number of patents on CDMA2000, WCDMA and 4G LTE. In other words, in the era of 2G, 3G or 4G, it is basically impossible to bypass Qualcomm to make mobile phones.
Qualcomm has cooperated with some big mobile phone or chip companies, and basically reached a patent authorization. Generally, in Qualcomm, the chip fee is charged according to the number of chips sold, and then the patent licensing fee is charged according to a certain proportion of the overall price of the mobile phone, generally 5%. Because of this patent, Qualcomm has been subjected to antitrust investigations many times around the world.
Apple and Qualcomm have cooperated before, but now the contradiction between the two giants is expanding.
In 20 17, the two sides formally turned against each other because of the "patent licensing fee". On June 20 17, Apple sued Qualcomm for alleged monopoly and refused to return the promised patent licensing fee of 65,438 billion US dollars. In the second quarter of the same year, Apple refused to pay royalties to Qualcomm. Qualcomm denied Apple's allegations and sued Apple for patent infringement in several countries.
According to media reports, Apple's patent war in Qualcomm has expanded to six countries and 16 jurisdictions around the world, and there have been more than 50 lawsuits, most of which are still under trial, not only the standard essential patents in 3G, 4G and other communication fields, but also software patents.
Recently, foreign media reported that Apple plans to postpone the adoption of 5G network for iPhone until 2020, mainly due to chip technology limitations. Due to the patent dispute with its traditional partner Qualcomm, Apple turned to Intel, which has relatively weak 5G technology, for cooperation. But Intel process chips are slow.