Qualcomm wins preliminary China import ruling against some iPhone models
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Re: Qualcomm wins preliminary China import ruling against some iPhone models
#2"The court found Apple violated two of Qualcomm’s software patents around resizing photographs and managing applications on a touch screen."
Well, that's not exactly the victory they wanted, but I think Qualcomm will take anything they can get at this point.
Re: Qualcomm wins preliminary China import ruling against some iPhone models
#3Trade war disguised. Qualcomm got China’s back and likely win this time
Re: Qualcomm wins preliminary China import ruling against some iPhone models
#4In related news, Qualcomm seems to be shutting down its Centriq division, which China announces its own similar chips. Coincidence?
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/qualcomm-lays-off-26...?
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/10/qualcomm_layoffs/
AMD made the same "devil's deal" with China, essentially giving away their IP for a small price. It's interesting how China is now basically telling foreign companies "We'll just take your IP and make your product ourselves here. Here take some change for it." I can only imagine this type of "deal" will continue to be made with other companies in the coming years.
https://www.eweek.com/servers/china-s-hygon-unveils-x86-proc...
Re: Qualcomm wins preliminary China import ruling against some iPhone models
#5"The court found Apple violated two of Qualcomm’s software patents around resizing photographs and managing applications on a touch screen." Well, that's not exactly the victory they wanted, but I think Qualcomm will take anything they can get at this point.
It's just one front among many in their battle. The idea is to make things difficult for Apple.
Re: Qualcomm wins preliminary China import ruling against some iPhone models
#6I wonder if this relates to the arrest of Huawei's CFO. Maybe someone who knows about the Chinese court system can say more.
Re: Qualcomm wins preliminary China import ruling against some iPhone models
#7I wonder if this relates to the arrest of Huawei's CFO. Maybe someone who knows about the Chinese court system can say more.
Highly likely to be unrelated. This is just one American company against another.
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#8"The court found Apple violated two of Qualcomm’s software patents around resizing photographs and managing applications on a touch screen." Well, that's not exactly the victory they wanted, but I think Qualcomm will take anything they can get at this point.
It's the same type of patent Apple used against Samsung in US, so it's not like they're an innocent party in this dance.
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#9Qualcomm got this win because of two patents relate to software. For their inventors, they are probably not working on Qualcomm's core business (licensing and modem), wondering what will happen to them? An email from their superiors saying "well done and thank you", a cash bonus maybe some extra RSU, a promotion or maybe nothing?
Anyone has experience on this?
Re: Qualcomm wins preliminary China import ruling against some iPhone models
#10Qualcomm got this win because of two patents relate to software. For their inventors, they are probably not working on Qualcomm's core business (licensing and modem), wondering what will happen to them? An email from their superiors saying "well done and thank you", a cash bonus maybe some extra RSU, a promotion or maybe nothing? Anyone has experience on this?
Employees usually get RSUs when they get a patent filed and granted, and that's it.