Apple announced that the ban on 5G iPhone has been lifted

With the development of smart phones, it is not uncommon for major manufacturers to file lawsuits due to patent disputes.

This is no exception even for the rich Apple.

Previously, in the 5G patent dispute between Apple and Ericsson, the Colombian High Court ruled that Apple infringed and banned the sale of iPhone and iPad equipped with 5G technology in the country.

This patent technology belonging to Ericsson will be valid until December 2037.

Ericsson believes that Apple has used this technology in the iPhone 12 and 13 series, as well as multiple iPads without consensus with Ericsson.

Since the ban was issued two months before the release of the new iPhone, Apple is also active to avoid the loss of iPhone sales caused by the ban.

Recently, Ericsson finally reached a settlement with Apple, ending the patent dispute, and the relevant injunction was also lifted.

Ericsson said that it has reached a global patent license agreement with Apple, which includes several technology licenses related to cellular communication standards.

Although Ericsson and Apple did not disclose the details of the agreement, at least the ban on 5G iPhones was finally lifted.

According to foreign media Foss Patents, the court of Bogot á, the capital of Colombia, preliminarily lifted the ban on the sale of 5G iPhone on November 17.

This means that Apple's 5G devices have all announced the lifting of the ban, and 5G products, including the iPhone 14 series, have been allowed to sell normally in Colombia.

In a word, the patent dispute between the two companies can be described as a protracted process.

Since 2008, Apple has signed a 7-year LTE related license contract with Ericsson.

However, before the formal expiration of the contract, Ericsson required to charge an additional 1.5% of the product price as the patent fee, which also became the trigger of the contradiction between the two parties.

Then in 2021, the two companies took the patent dispute to court, and both sides tried to impose an import ban on the products manufactured by the other party.

Among them, including Apple's iPhone and Ericsson's mobile base station, all played as chips in this lawsuit.

In fact, patent disputes have always been a difficult problem for major mobile phone manufacturers.

At present, enterprises, including Ericsson and Nokia, which have already exited the mobile phone market, because they hold a number of patents, can obtain a large amount of income from other companies every year.

According to the report of Strategy Analytics, a global research organization, the 5G mobile phones sold every year can bring nearly 20 billion dollars to the patent holders.

Among them, Ericsson, Nokia and Qualcomm have basically covered most of the communication patents, which is also an important source of income for the three companies.

It can be predicted that with the continuous development of 5G technology, more communication patent disputes will be put on the table in the future, accompanied by transactions and compromises.

According to the news from the outside world, Apple has begun to develop its own 5G baseband chip, aiming to get rid of Qualcomm's "patent shackles".

Although the current situation shows that the actual application scenario of 5G technology is not clear enough, it is expected that users will call it "tachometer".

However, with the development of mobile Internet and the rise of AR/VR industry, the 5G field will probably become a battleground for many manufacturers.

For users, after the announcement of the completion of Apple's 5G baseband development, whether the iPhone can bring a better communication experience is also the most important concern.

In short, let's wait and see.

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