Leading chipmaker Qualcomm and Apple on Tuesday agreed to drop all litigation between them across the globe, ending a web of legal battles the tech giants have fought on multiple continents for two years.<\/p>\n
The surprise settlement came on Tuesday, just as Apple and Qualcomm were gearing up for a significant court battle in San Diego.<\/p>\n
The terms:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Qualcomm and Apple on Tuesday afternoon announced an agreement to dismiss all litigation between the companies, which includes a payment of an undisclosed amount from Apple to Qualcomm.<\/p>\n The settlement includes a six-year patent licensing agreement, effective at the beginning of April, Apple said in a statement. The agreement can be extended for two years.<\/p>\n Qualcomm as part of the settlement has agreed to supply parts to Apple over the span of multiple years, meaning it could start supplying chips to Apple again.<\/p>\n Qualcomm will end litigation with Apple’s contract manufacturers.<\/p>\n What they were fighting about:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>In courts around the world, Apple has claimed Qualcomm boosts its prices excessively and accused the chipmaker of acting as a monopoly as it charged fees for patents. Qualcomm has accused Apple of stealing its intellectual property without compensation.<\/p>\n Apple bought modem chips from Qualcomm for years, but the relationship soured two years ago as Apple accused Qualcomm of charging exorbitant prices.<\/p>\n The companies on Tuesday had started proceedings in a trial, which saw both sides asking for billions of dollars in damages.<\/p>\n Qualcomm in recent months has indicated that it would be willing to work with Apple to unroll an iPhone with 5G capabilities, which Apple has reportedly struggled to launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Leading chipmaker Qualcomm and Apple on...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-science-tech","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16206,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16205\/revisions\/16206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}