Apple said Qualcomm’s tech was no good. But privately, it was ‘the best.’

On Tuesday, Apple lawyer Ruffin Cordell used comparatively inexpensive patent licenses Apple had signed with companies like Ericsson and Huawei to show how Qualcomm was price gouging. In one internal document cited by Qualcomm’s lawyers, Apple said it sought to “create evidence” by scrupulously licensing other less expensive patents to make Qualcomm’s look expensive. According to internal documents revealed in court, Apple wrote that it entered into the patent licensing agreement “based on Qualcomm’s established and relatively transparent actual monetary collection of patent licenses.”

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