Qualcomm Asks China To Ban the iPhone XS and XR (theverge.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Thursday December 13, 2018 @01:25PM from the add-it-to-the-list dept.

After securing a win in court earlier this week to ban Apple's older phones, Qualcomm is trying to get the newer iPhones banned too. "According to the Financial Times, Qualcomm has now asked Chinese courts to issue an injunction that bans Apple from selling the iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR within the country due to the same case of possible patent infringement," reports The Verge. From the report: The new filing will escalate the companies' legal conflict in China, where Apple has so far ignored a court-ordered sales ban. Apple claims the ban only applied to phones running iOS 11 and earlier. Since its phones have now been updated to iOS 12, Apple believes they can remain on sale, and so it has continued to sell them. According to the Financial Times, the Chinese court's order doesn't specifically mention any version of Apple's operating system. That doesn't necessarily mean Apple is wrong, but it does mean that there's more to be hashed out.

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Re:What a joke by hackingbear · 2018-12-13 16:35 · Score: 1, Insightful

Of course China is really big on enforcing Patent Infringement isn't it ?
Why not? Very soon, Americans will be complaining about Chinese patent trolls.
The United States used to violate other countries' intellectual properties left and right, after it developed its industry and economy, the U.S. developed into the patent trolling business.