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CTOnews.com, Oct. 3 (Reuters)-the U.S. Supreme Court again rejected Apple's request to "cancel three Qualcomm smartphone patents" on Monday.

The U.S. Supreme Court retained the lower court's ruling on Apple, which also rejected Apple's appeal in June to challenge two other Qualcomm patent-related decisions.

CTOnews.com learned that in 2017, Qualcomm sued Apple in federal court in San Diego, arguing that its iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch infringed its mobile technology patents. The case is part of a broader global dispute between the two tech giants.

Apple's Patent trial and Appeals Committee in the United States Patent and Trademark Office questioned the validity of the patents involved in the case. The two companies largely stopped fighting in 2019 and signed a multibillion-dollar agreement to allow Apple to continue to use Qualcomm baseband chips in the iPhone. The agreement includes Apple's license to thousands of Qualcomm patents, but allows the Patent Commission's lawsuit to continue.

The committee maintained the Qualcomm patents in 2020, and Apple appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit because Qualcomm could sue it again after the license expired (as early as 2025). The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the case on the grounds of lack of qualifications, arguing that the risk of Apple being sued again was speculative.

Qualcomm once again argued that Apple did not show specific harm to justify the appeal, as in the "substantially identical" case rejected by the High Court.

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