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Apple to pull some iPhones in Germany
    2018-12-24  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

CHIP supplier Qualcomm Inc. won a second court skirmish in its worldwide patent battle with Apple Inc. last week, with the iPhone maker saying it would pull some older models from its German stores.

Qualcomm’s win in Germany comes weeks after it secured a court order to ban sales of some iPhone models in China. Apple, which is contesting both rulings, has continued to offer its iPhones in China but made changes to its iOS operating system in the wake of the Chinese order.

The German victory may affect only a few million iPhones out of the hundreds of millions that Apple sells each year. Still, it is a small but clear win in a complex legal battle that will spin into overdrive in the coming months as antitrust regulators and Apple both take Qualcomm to court in the United States.

Apple alleges that Qualcomm engaged in illegal behavior to preserve a monopoly on modem chips. Qualcomm has in turn accused Apple of using the chip supplier’s vast stable of technology innovations without proper compensation.

While a sales ban in China could hurt Apple’s bottom line, it is unlikely the two patent skirmishes will sway the outcome of the broader battle, where Qualcomm has suffered a series of setbacks fighting U.S. antitrust regulators.

Apple said it would pull older iPhones from its German stores after a court ruled that Apple had infringed a hardware patent of Qualcomm and banned sales of iPhones there with chips from Apple supplier Qorvo Inc.

For each of the two Apple entities it won orders against, Qualcomm needs to post a bond of about 668.4 million euros (US$765.9 million), before it can begin proceedings to enforce the order, a move Qualcomm said it would carry out “within a few days.” (SD-Agencies)

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