Qualcomm denies Apple patent case witnesses falsification testimony

  On February 13, according to US technology media CNET, Apple and Qualcomm continued to argue over the so-called witness tampering testimony. Apple reiterated on Tuesday that there is reason to suspect that the main witnesses of the case were before the trial of the patent infringement case. External influences.

Apple's lawyer, Juanita Brooks, mentioned that Apple had reason to suspect that someone was trying to shake Siwa's testimony, even though she said she still doesn't know who it is. Brooks wrote in the document: "Apple has good reason to worry that Qualcomm will take measures to influence the testimony of Siwa."

When Apple first filed a complaint last week, Qualcomm said it was "absurd" and strongly denied it. Judge Dana Sabraw, who presided over the case, also said that Apple’s allegations “have no evidence to support it”.

Now in the Shiva work of Google, he testified on Monday that he said that many of the elements of the startup technology covered by the patent were "my ideas," but did not say that he was the inventor himself.

The controversy surrounding Siva has always made the high-tech patent case a dramatic one.

Last week, when Apple accused Siwa of falsifying testimony after hiring a new lawyer, the new lawyer, Matt Warren, suggested that Siwa, if not summoned, would not appear in court. Apple claims that this proposal is unfair because Warren was previously a partner at Quinn Emanuel, which currently represents Qualcomm.

In addition, Apple also issued a subpoena last week, demanding that Siwa and Warren appear in San Diego. Shiva’s new lawyer, Warren, also hired his own lawyer.

However, the situation changed again last Friday, when Brooks said that Apple had filed a subpoena with Siwa and his lawyer Matt Warren. Brooks said that Siwa had already got another new lawyer and he could let him testify. Siwa, who is now working at Google, is expected to testify in court on Monday.

On Monday, Warren’s lawyer wrote in a letter to the court that the witness’s falsification of the claim was “unfounded”. Warren's lawyer said in the letter that the current employer of Siva, Google, has arranged Warren to become an independent legal adviser to Siwa. He said that Google only learned about Siwa’s expected testimony on Wednesday, asking the subpoena to be a “regular request”.

In court documents, Brooks said that Apple’s defense had been working with Siwa for several months before “the thing changed”. Despite this, she said that Siwa’s testimony was consistent with the original plan, so she believed that there was no reason to take “further action” on Siwa’s testimony.

San Diego’s patent trial is only part of a long-standing legal dispute between Apple and Qualcomm. The two companies will again be in court in April to discuss the royalties of iPhone technology.