{"id":98748,"date":"2018-07-02T06:30:33","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T10:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipwatchdog.com\/?p=98748"},"modified":"2018-10-07T11:13:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T15:13:42","slug":"apple-qualcomm-ptab-six-ipr-petitions-four-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipwatchdog.com\/2018\/07\/02\/apple-qualcomm-ptab-six-ipr-petitions-four-patents\/id=98748\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Brings Patent Battle Against Qualcomm to PTAB With Six IPR Petitions on Four Patents"},"content":{"rendered":"

If Qualcomm’s allegations are true, Apple will apparently stop at nothing to avoid paying licensing fees for Qualcomm\u2019s patented technologies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"\"<\/a>For more than a year and a half, Cupertino, CA-based consumer tech giant Apple and San Diego, CA-based semiconductor firm Qualcomm have been locked in a patent squabble which has played out internationally in various legal forums. Last January, both Apple and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) <\/span>filed lawsuits against Qualcomm for alleged violations of fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) obligations<\/span><\/a> committed by the chipmaker in licensing its standard-essential patents (SEPs). Qualcomm followed this months later by filing a suit against Apple in U.S. district court alleging tortious interference and then filing a Section 337 complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC); <\/span>the ITC opened an official investigation based on that complaint last June<\/span><\/a>. Last October, <\/span>Qualcomm filed a patent infringement suit against Apple in China<\/span><\/a> seeking to block sales of iPhones into perhaps the largest growth market for smartphones left in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>If Qualcomm’s allegations are true, Apple will apparently stop at nothing to avoid paying licensing fees for Qualcomm\u2019s patented technologies. <\/span>Qualcomm\u2019s tortious interference suit against Apple<\/span><\/a> alleges that the consumer tech titan misrepresented both Qualcomm\u2019s business model and the performance of Qualcomm\u2019s mobile chipsets in order to encourage foreign trade regulators to levy fines against Qualcomm totalling hundreds of millions of dollars. Most recently, Apple has decided to avail itself of an old friend, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), in the hopes of rendering Qualcomm patents invalid to continue practicing technologies for which it has no interest in paying licensing fees.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Of the 428 total petitions which Apple has filed with the PTAB to challenge the validity of issued U.S. patents, six of the company\u2019s latest petitions target a total of four patents which are held by Qualcomm. These include the following patents:<\/span><\/p>\n