A US International Trade Commission judge said Apple’s phones infringed one Qualcomm patent related to power management technology, but denied the chipmaker’s request for a ban on the import of some iPhones into the United States. Thomas Pender, an administrative law judge at the ITC, said that “public interest factors” weighed against granting Qualcomm’s request for a ban. Qualcomm, the world’s largest mobile phone chipmaker, has another pending patent case against Apple before the ITC. Qualcomm did not allege that Intel chips violate its patents, but claimed that the way Apple implemented them in the iPhone does. Pender said in Friday’s decision that Apple infringed only one of the three patents remaining in the case.

Source: The Express Tribune September 29, 2018 06:26 UTC