Companies Are Lining Up to Support Apple Against Qualcomm

Companies Are Lining Up to Support Apple Against Qualcomm

Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) legal battle with Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) isn't going anywhere anytime soon, even though Qualcomm is confident that the two companies will be able to settle. We already know that the dispute continues to expand, with suppliers now getting caught in the middle and Qualcomm countersuing and seeking an import ban from the International Trade Commission (ITC). Just this week, Qualcomm also sued Apple in Munich and Mannheim over other patents related to energy efficiency, according to FOSS Patents.

Qualcomm expects that the ITC investigation should commence in August and the case should be tried in 2018. The ITC import ban that Qualcomm is requesting only applies to iPhones that carry Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) modems inside. Obviously, Intel's not happy about that.

Qualcomm is only trying to block iPhones with Intel modems. Image source: Apple.

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