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EU: Qualcomm request court to overturn US$1.2b antitrust fine

By  |  June 4, 2018

Qualcomm is asking the European Union’s General Court to strike down or substantially reduce a €997 million (US$1.2 billion) antitrust fine over payments made to Apple to ensure only its chips were used in iPhones and iPads, reported Bloomberg.

A short summary of the company’s legal arguments for the court appeal filed in April was published in the EU’s Official Journal on Monday, June 4.

Qualcomm argued that EU investigators were wrong to find that Qualcomm’s agreements with Apple were capable of harming competition and wrongly applied their own rules on how they set a fine. The company also said regulators distorted evidence in dismissing Qualcomm’s defense that some of its actions could be justified by efficiency.

Full Content: Bloomberg

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