The Apple vs. Qualcomm drama has taken a turn for the dramatic. Today Qualcomm has fired back its own complaint against the ITC, and filed a suit in California, claiming that Apple is infringing on Qualcomm’s patents and that an import ban on the infringing products is justified. The suit is only against products which use modems “other than those supplied by Qualcomm’s affiliates,” which, presumably, means the Intel modems that Apple has chosen to use in some models.
Qualcomm claims that the six patents included in the suit are not part of any industry standard and that it is therefore not obliged to offer to license them as part of those standards.
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