Apple Inc. he sued Qualcomm Inc., accusing it of monopolizing the market of chips for mobile devices, and to withhold a billion dollars in retaliation for cooperating with the antitrust authorities in South Korea.
Apple requires Qualcomm to deliver money that should have been a reimbursement for commissions and licensing. Qualcomm is holding the money as a punishment to Apple for cooperating with antitrust regulators koreans, according to the complaint filed in San Diego, California, where the headquarters of Qualcomm.
Apple also wants to recover billions of dollars that says that you were charged more as part of "strategy of the illegal Qualcomm" to control the market of semiconductors for mobile phones. He wants the court to change the manner in which Qualcomm copper for their technology in the future.
Regulators around the world have launched against Qualcomm for their practices of patent licensing. The lawsuit filed Friday is the first direct challenge on the part of one of their biggest customers and threaten to change the way how to calculate the royalties on the part of any owner of patents for technology that are the basis of the modern electronic.
Apple is under pressure to extract more profits every iPhone after that the income dropped last year for the first time since 2001 by less sales. Usually get the same component from multiple suppliers, which helps to ensure lower prices by forcing manufacturers to compete on price.
The shares of Qualcomm fell 2.4 percent to close at $ 63 in New York. The titles of Apple rose less than 1 percent, to $ 120. The spokesman for Qualcomm Pete Lancia refused to comment.
"Qualcomm has built its business on ancient standards, of legacy, but ratifies its domain through tactics of exclusion and excessive royalty," said Apple in a statement. "Despite being only one among more than a dozen companies that contributed to the basic standards of the cellular, Qualcomm insists on charging Apple at least five times more in payments than all the other licensors of patents with which we have agreements together."
The complaint also questions the validity of some key patent of Qualcomm for wireless technologies. Apple asks the court to rule if the patents are upheld, that the amount of royalties will be considerably less than what Qualcomm charges now.
In December, South Korea, home to two of the largest customers of Qualcomm, fined the company with 890 million dollars and described their methods as monopolists. Qualcomm has indicated that it will appeal the decision.
The chip maker is also being investigated by the European Union and authorities from taiwan. In the heart of the dispute between Apple and Qualcomm is an effort of the manufacturers of phones with support of the regulator by reducing the royalties of patents charged by Qualcomm.
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