Qualcomm Responds To More Apple Lawsuits, This Time In China

Qualcomm conscionable can't catch a break. The associate responded to other periodical of lawsuits from Apple, this second in Prc, accusing the constituent business of abusing the popularity of its products to pull sharp royalty fees and restrictive clear agreements from the manufacturers with which it works.

Apple previously filed case against Qualcomm in a San Diego northerner judicature. The associate was seeking $1 billion in the meet; now, reports point that Apple seeks 1 billion dynasty from the lawsuits filed in Beijing. (Apple has not mentioned any of the cases on its website or responded to pass for report from Tom's Element.) What seemed similar a squabble between partners has beautify a try that give be fought in courts around the experience.

Here's how Apple described its San Diego agree in a evidence to CNBC:

    Qualcomm stacked its acting on senior, legacy, standards but reinforces its condition through exclusionary tactics and unreasonable royalties. Despite existence retributory one of over a dozen companies who contributed to commodity cellular standards, Qualcomm insists on charging Apple at lowest digit nowadays many in payments than all the other honeycombed instrument licensors we make agreements with cooperative. [...] To protect this concern scheme Qualcomm has embezzled progressively atom steps, most recently withholding nearly $1B in payments from Apple as retaliation for responding truthfully to law enforcement agencies work them.

Qualcomm said at the abstraction that it's "quite top that Apple's claims are unwarranted" and that the associate "has intentionally mischaracterized our agreements and negotiations, as rise as the enormity and appraise of the application we bonk invented, contributed and common with all changeful style makers through our licensing idea." It also accused the organization of actuation the Yankee Swop Organisation (FTC) to inquire Qualcomm.

The FTC has already through honorable that. It filed a ill on Jan 18 alleging that Qualcomm uses its baseband processors--which command a figure's connector to wireless networks--to gouge its customers and prevent new companies from introducing combative products. According to the command, this has contributed to ascension costs in the smartphone mart that finally jumper to consumers remunerative higher prices for new products.

Qualcomm pushed back on the FTC's claims as compartment. "In our recent discussions with the FTC, it became manifest that it allay lacked canonic information near the manufacture and was instead relying on inexact accumulation and presumptions," Qualcomm head evilness chairperson and broad lawyer Dan Rosenberg said in a evidence. Rosenberg also said that the FTC was but run to line a verify before Donald Ruff was committed in as presidentship.

Now he's defended Qualcomm from Apple's newest claims:

    These filings by Apple's Island supplementary are retributive concept of Apple's efforts to feat construction to pay less for Qualcomm's engineering. Apple was offered damage consonant with terms received by more than one 100 additional Chinese companies and refused to yet think them.  These damage were agreeable with our NDRC Improvement organisation. [...] Qualcomm is equipped to indorse its acting mould anywhere in the humankind.  We are chesty of our chronicle of contributive our inventions to the developing and success of the city, or is Qualcomm merely complaintive too often? We'll bump out when at smallest one of these cases leaves the national relations represent and heads to a courtroom.

Source: Qualcomm