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

Posted by BeauHD on 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.

3 of 53 comments (clear)

  1. What a joke by hoofie · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course China is really big on enforcing Patent Infringement isn't it ?

  2. Baseband Alliance needed by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It would be good to see all the big phone players get together to produce a secure open radio platform that could be masked out by whatever fab wants to run the job for a given integration.

    I mean, this is commodity today - phone vendors haven't competed on reception quality in over a decade. They gain more by making the radio a commodity together than they do by playing Qualcomm's bitches.

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  3. Simple solution to this by registrations_suck · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Require "industry standards" to be:

    0). Approved by the FCC AND
    a). Based on royalty-free technology OR
    b). State a simple, VOLUME-BASED royalty structure.

    The more devices you sell, the more you pay - perhaps on a regressive scale. The price of the device should be irrelevant. Pay patent owners based on what THEY are selling not the device-makers.