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Apple stated that the license agreement with Qualcomm is invalid

Apple claims that the license agreement under which she is required to make deductions from Qualcomm with each iPhone produced, are invalid. With this position were made by the representatives of the “Apple” giant in the Federal court of the United States.

In the beginning of the year, Apple has filed a lawsuit against Qualcomm, accusing it of abuse of a dominant position in the market of cellular modems for smartphones. Later it became known that Apple doesn’t send their partners that are engaged in the Assembly of the iPhone, the funds intended for payment of royalties to Qualcomm.

Apple said that it will not transfer the money as long as its dispute with Qualcomm is resolved. Considering how to become “stuck” such cases in the United States, step copertina was quite amusing.

The initial lawsuit Apple was relatively narrow, focused primarily on figuring out whether it has violated a contract with Qualcomm, helping the regulators who have studied the business practices of Qualcomm or not. But the new charges to the court, expand the range of requirements of Apple. In Cupertino seek to destroy the current business model of Qualcomm with the help of a legal theory based on Supreme court decisions, released last month.

The U.S. Supreme court made it more difficult for manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies the ability to control how their products are used or resold, speaking in may against Lexmark International Inc. in a patent dispute over the resale of another company’s used ink cartridges.

Then Apple came out against the existing practices of Qualcomm to require clients to sign agreements on patent license before they will buy chips, known in the industry as “no license, no chips” (no license, no chips).

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Currently the licensing allows Qualcomm to receive payments in the form of a percentage of the total cost of iPhone sales in exchange for the supply of modem chips that are used in phones to connect to cellular networks.

Apple argues that the court’s decision regarding Lexmark revealed that Qualcomm is entitled to receive only “one reward” for their intellectual property and products. That is, Qualcomm should be allowed to charge for a license for the patent for the chip, but not for both.

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