A U.S. trade judge on Friday declined to block the importation of Apple iPhones with chips from Intel, handing a major defeat to Qualcomm in its high-stakes legal dispute with the iPhone maker.
A U.S. International Trade Commission judge said Apple’s phones infringed one Qualcomm patent related to power management technology but denied the chipmaker’s request for a ban on the import of some iPhones into the United States.
The agency judge said “public interest factors” weighed against granting Qualcomm’s request for a ban.
Representatives of Apple, Qualcomm, and Intel did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
