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| Samsung's actions are clear hints that it's no longer content to remain on the defensive in the mobile patent wars |
In what looks like a more agressive stance by Samsung in response the increasingly litigious behaviour of Apple, Samsung is reportedly demanding details of a confidential supply arrangement between Apple and its baseband chip supplier Qualcomm.
A cross-licensing
agreement between Qualcomm and Samsung is at issue, with a request from Samsung to the US
District Court in California in which it has asked for “all agreements
pursuant to which Qualcomm supplies or supplied ‘Qualcomm MDM6610’
chipsets to any person of entity and all documents that evidence,
reflect or refer to the use by Apple of Qualcomm chipsets in iPhones
or iPads”.
In other words, Samsung
wants the information to finally establish if Apple is a direct
customer of Qualcomm, or if it makes its purchases through a third
party, critical to claims by the Korean phone maker that Apple
infringes its intellectual property.
