Apple is still violating Chinese court order, despite new software, Qualcomm charges: report
Qualcomm Inc. said it believes Apple Inc. remains in violation of a Chinese court's orders to stop selling iPhones despite a software update that Apple pushed out on Monday, Reuters reported. Qualcomm said last week it had won a preliminary court order in China banning Apple from selling some older iPhone models that the court found violated two Qualcomm software patents. Apple said it believed it was in compliance with the court, but that it would update its software "to address any possible concern about our compliance with the order." The update was pushed on Monday, Apple told Reuters. Qualcomm isn't satisfied. "Despite Apple's efforts to downplay the significance of the order and its claims of various ways it will address the infringement, Apple apparently continues to flout the legal system by violating the injunctions," Don Rosenberg, Qualcomm's general counsel, told Reuters in a statement. Several media outlets, including CNBC, reported that Apple believed the court's orders applied only to iPhones running older versions of its iOS operating system. Qualcomm refutes that. Apple shares are up 0.9% in premarket trading Tuesday. Qualcomm had yet not registered an early trade; it fell 1% Monday.
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