WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday again declined to hear
Apple Inc's bid to revive an effort to cancel three Qualcomm Inc
smartphone patents despite the settlement of the underlying dispute
between the two tech giants.

The justices left in place a lower court's decision against Apple after similarly turning away in June the company's appeal of a lower court
ruling in a closely related case challenging two other Qualcomm patents.

Qualcomm sued Apple in San Diego federal court in 2017, arguing that
its iPhones, iPads and Apple Watches infringed a variety of
mobile-technology patents. That case was part of a broader global
dispute between the tech giants.

Apple challenged the validity of the patents at issue in this case at
the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

The companies settled their underlying fight in 2019, signing an
agreement worth billions of dollars that let Apple continue using
Qualcomm chips in iPhones. The settlement included an Apple license to thousands of Qualcomm patents, but allowed the patent-board proceedings
to continue.

The board upheld the patents in 2020, and Apple appealed to the patent-specialist U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federa lCircuit.
Cupertino, California-based Apple argued it had proper legal standing
to appeal because San Diego-based Qualcomm could sue again after the
license expires, potentially as soon as 2025.

A Federal Circuit three-judge panel, in a 2-1 ruling, dismissed the
case last year for a lack of standing, finding that Apple's risk of
being sued again was speculative and the challenge would not affect its
payment obligations under the settlement.

Qualcomm has again argued that Apple has not shown a concrete injury to
justify the appeal, just like in the "materially identical" case that
the high court rejected.

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