Despite a heated on-going court battle over patents and intellectual property, Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf still sees the potential for an out-of-court resolution to the dispute with Apple, Fortune reports. Mollenkopf compared the case to others the company has fought over the years with other tech giants.
“There’s not really anything new going on,” Mollenkopf said during the Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen. “Those things tend to get to resolved out of court and there’s no reason why I wouldn’t expect that to be the case here.” That said, Mollenkopf admitted he had no real news on a possible resolution to the case, and rhetoric on both sides is fairly intense.
While Qualcomm claims its technology is “at the heart of every iPhone,” Apple argues that, “As Apple innovates, Qualcomm demands more. Qualcomm had nothing to do with creating the revolutionary Touch ID, the world’s most popular camera, or the Retina display Apple’s customers love, yet Qualcomm wants to be paid as if these (and future) breakthroughs belong to it.”
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