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>Apple argues that Qualcomm is using its intellectual property to bully customers into paying excessive royalties even as it tries to duck scrutiny over whether
by fouc 8y ago
>Apple argues that Qualcomm is using its intellectual property to bully customers into paying excessive royalties even as it tries to duck scrutiny over whether its patents are valid. “You can’t just let Qualcomm walk away from this,” Apple’s lawyer, Ruffin Cordell, told the judge at Friday’s hearing.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoQualcomm did all of the groundwork to develop CDMA. No way are all of the applicable patents invalid. Seems like Apple dropped the ball on this one.
- btian 8y agoCDMA parents have probably all expired since it's over 20 years old.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoThe original ones, but I will bet that there are follow on patents that still apply.
- josteink 8y agoBut nobody uses CDMA anymore except for some fringe, legacy operators. Everyone else is on the GSM, UMTS and LTE bandwagon.
- batiudrami 8y agoVerizon still operates a legacy CDMA network which iPhones are compatible with, no? Or are newer models now only compatible with their LTE network?
- merb 8y agonot all iphones are compatible, tough. List is here: https://www.apple.com/iphone/LTE/ https://www.apple.com/iphone/LTE/ i.e. for america there are special models that support cdma, but most countries do not need that.
- xxpor 8y agoEvery single VZW and Sprint phone sold in the US has a CDMA modem. They all support 1xRTT and EVDO.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoUMTS uses WCDMA. The old patents still apply as the base modulation technology even if the IS95 protocol is mostly gone.
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- izacus 8y agoHearing this from Apple of all the corporations is a bit rich isn't it?