The lawsuits, filed in in the US District Court for the Southern District of California, is part of an ongoing legal dispute between Apple and Qualcomm that began in January. Qualcomm said in the complaint that the four Taiwanese manufacturers of iPhones and iPads breached longstanding licensing deals and it is seeking unspecified damages, as they refuse to pay for use of Qualcomm’s licensed technologies. Under Apple’s instructions, the contract manufacturers stopped paying royalties on the Apple products they produce to Qualcomm last quarter, Rosenberg said in a teleconference with Taiwanese media yesterday. It also appears that Apple, in order to seduce its manufacturers to comply with it, said it would pay any damages arising from not paying Qualcomm, Rosenberg said. However, the Taiwanese firms are continuing to pay Qualcomm royalties for use of its technology in non-Apple products under the same agreements that apply to the Apple products, Qualcomm said.

Source: Taipei Times May 17, 2017 16:10 UTC