Reply to post: Re: Fair and reasonable rates...

One BEEELLION dollars: Apple sues Qualcomm, one of its chip designers

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Re: Fair and reasonable rates...

Fair reasonable and NON DISCRIMINATORY. Meaning they can't charge more for integrating the same patents into a device based on its sales price - how does Apple going from 32 GB to 256 GB in the top end iPhone that sells for more entitle Qualcomm to more money for its patents?

This is something that's been upheld by courts in multiple jurisdictions around the world. Sure, Apple agreed to pay those royalties, as did Samsung and everyone else - that's the nature of monopoly power. You can force others to take bad deals because you have all the power in the relationship. Apple may wield a lot of power due to their size and the amount of components they buy for all the phones they sell, but when it comes to "we want to support Verizon and Sprint in our phones, so we need CDMA technology" they are at the mercy of Qualcomm, just like everyone else.

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