Stefan Mileschin

Refuses to hear Apple patent appeal

The US Supreme Court took time out of its busy schedule of turning the country into a US fundamentalist Christian state by telling US women what they may do with their own bodies to tell Apple it could not be bothered listening to its Appeal against two Qualcomm patents (US Patent No. 7,844,037 and US Patent No. 8,683,362).

For those who came in late Qualcomm made the unusual decision to sue Apple which insisted that it invented the leading technology behind Apple's iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watches.

Apple and Qualcomm's 2019 settlement of a worldwide legal battle over patents largely ended the squabbling in favour of a six-year licensing agreement but allowed a case in front of the Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board to continue. Apple persisted because if it didn’t want its users to think that it did not invent that much.

Apple argued the two patents should be invalid, because of “reasons” and was surprised that the board decided that Qualcomm had invented the tech not Apple. It was even more surprised when the Federal Circuit court rejected Apple's request for an appeal based on the 2019 settlement covering thousands of patents, including those two. At the time, Apple argued that its royalty payments and risk of being sued again were reasons for a hearing.

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