April 16, 2019
Apple and Qualcomm have settled their multibillion-dollar dispute over Qualcomm's patent-licensing practices just after opening statements in the long-awaited antitrust trial in San Diego about how large a cut Qualcomm gets on iPhones that use its technology.
April 12, 2019
Who deserves the credit for the iPhone's takeover of the world: Apple or chipmaker Qualcomm? Whether attorneys for one tech titan or the other can convince a San Diego jury that their client is the true innovator is one of several crucial questions in the trial of Apple's claims that its onetime exclusive chipset supplier squeezed competing processor companies out of the market.
April 11, 2019
Two of the world's largest technology companies will go head-to-head next week in front of a California federal judge and jury on Apple's antitrust claims against Qualcomm and the chipmaker's counterclaims for breach of contract, in a clash that could help shape intellectual property licensing around the world.
April 10, 2019
A California federal judge has agreed to break off a small piece of Apple's impending antitrust and contract trial with Qualcomm, putting off the question of Apple's obligation to cover any liabilities incurred by its contract manufacturers facing Qualcomm's contract breach claims until after the main proceedings.
March 28, 2019
Apple Inc. assailed Qualcomm Thursday for asking a California federal judge to let the chipmaker fire the opening salvos in an upcoming jury trial in their massive antitrust and contract dispute, calling Qualcomm's bid a "surprise" move.
March 26, 2019
Apple has already won a decision nixing allegations that the company breached a deal not to snitch on Qualcomm in investigations into the chipmaker's licensing practices, and now the tech giant wants a California federal judge to let the deal be discussed at an upcoming antitrust trial against Qualcomm over its objections.
March 25, 2019
A quick win clearing Apple of allegations it breached a deal not to snitch on Qualcomm in investigations into the chipmaker's licensing practices means that virtually all mention of that agreement should be barred from its upcoming antitrust trial brought by Apple, Qualcomm told a California federal judge Friday.
March 21, 2019
A California federal judge has allowed Qualcomm to pursue its counterclaim in an antitrust suit that Apple forfeited rights to favorable licensing terms for smartphone technology.
March 20, 2019
Qualcomm can't be allowed to block any mention of separate antitrust actions from its upcoming multibillion-dollar trial against Apple over the chipmaker's licensing practices, Apple told a California federal judge Wednesday.
March 15, 2019
A California federal judge said Apple didn't breach an agreement not to snitch on Qualcomm when it cooperated with investigations into the chipmaker's licensing practices, declining to release Qualcomm from making payments under the agreement in an order unsealed Thursday.