These handsets support AT & T and T-Mobile networks, while Verizon and Sprint use Qualcomm modems and therefore will not be affected.
Qualcomm said in the application documents: "Apple can import iPhone (no matter who is using the modem), as long as it does not infringe the patents involved in this application.But Apple has no right to infringe on Qualcomm through the sale of iPhone 'non-standard elements of the patent' The original intention of designing a patented system was to stop such infringement and thus reward innovation.
Apple has yet to comment, but the company said in a Wednesday document: 'The Apple iPhone is why consumers love smartphones, and it continues to drive products and technologies that Apple creates and innovates, such as the iPhone X Face ID. Qualcomm's paid-for-purchase fruit powder boasted about their role in the smartphone, but in fact it's Apple, not Qualcomm, that puts an easy-to-use computer-type handset in the palm of your hand.
The application is Qualcomm and Apple's latest battle in the patent battle.Apple sued Qualcomm in January this year, to its claim about 1 billion US dollars, they accused the wireless chip maker did not provide them with fair and reasonable technology licensing provisions.Apple hopes to reduce Patent fees while Qualcomm counterclaims Apple's infringement, and asked to ban the sale of the iPhone.The company insisted that without Qualcomm's cellular technology, including any iPhone, including a mobile phone are not likely to be born.