Qualcomm didn’t bribe Apple for iPhone modem exclusivity at Intel’s expense, rules EU court
A number of procedural irregularities affected Qualcomm’s rights of defence and invalidate the Commission’s analysis of the conduct alleged against Qualcomm. The Commission did not provide an analysis which makes it possible to support the findings that the payments concerned had actually reduced Apple’s incentives to switch to Qualcomm’s competitors in order to obtain supplies of LTE chipsets for certain iPad models to be launched in 2014 and 2015.
Qualcomm is not out of the woods just yet, as the EU’s antitrust regulator can still appeal to the next and final EU Court of Justice step, though they’d be unlikely to entirely overturn the lower court’s findings provided that there have been a number of procedural missteps by the EC.
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