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As announced in December, Apple has appealed – a spokeswoman for the Munich Regional Court announced this on Friday.
Yesterday, Qualcomm deposited a security deposit of over 1.34 billion euros in securities, thereby putting the sales ban into effect. According to this, Apple is no longer allowed to sell or market the iPhone 7, iPhone 7+, iPhone 8, iPhone 8+ and iPhone X models (the latter was replaced by the iPhone Xs by Apple itself) in this country. Both companies disagree about the sales ban. Qualcomm is demanding a sales ban on the affected iPhone models in all German stores and is demanding that Apple confiscate all devices from retailers. According to the ruling, Apple is obliged to do this. Apple, however, has only removed the respective iPhones from its 15 German stores and stopped sales on its homepage.
About license costs and patent infringements
According to Apple, the semiconductor manufacturer is demanding license fees that are far too high - the chip company is abusing its market power - according to Apple. The reason for the ruling is the violation of a special patent, the technology of which optimizes the power consumption of the mobile phone chip. According to Qualcomm, Apple cannot change this with an iOS update. The ruling is not yet legally binding but is provisionally enforceable. The security deposit of around 1.34 billion euros in securities deposited by Qualcomm is intended to protect Apple against losses - should Cupertino ultimately win the case.
