The Apple company is fined 25.000 dollars each day starting on December 16 because it avoided providing evidence in a trial that is being tried in an American court. We are talking about a lawsuit that is opened against Qualcomm, the judge taking the decision to fine the Apple company with this amount for its refusal to cooperate.
The amount represents approximately what Apple collected every 16 seconds in Q3 2016, but we are talking about a daily one, and if the documents were not submitted this week, it would have already reached 175.000 dollars. Apple is not a party to the lawsuit, but he needs to find out if the Americans were forced by Qualcomm to buy their modem chips along with other licenses he didn't need.
Apple claims that it has provided several million documents for this process in a very short period of time and that it is working to provide another few million documents in the next period. Apple complains that the time required to provide the documents was too short and claims that it will appeal against the fine, but it is not known if it will win.
Qualcomm is involved in many lawsuits because of Apple, being accused by several manufacturers of forcing them to pay licenses for technologies they do not need. Not only Apple had to provide documents for this process, but it is the only company that was fined for not delivering them on time to the investigators.
"US Magistrate Judge Nathanael Cousins in San Jose, California, ordered Apple to pay $25,000 for each day that it fails to produce the evidence starting Dec. 16, a penalty equal to the profit the iPhone maker generated every 16 seconds in the last fiscal year. Apple has until Dec. 29 to turn over the documents or make even steeper fines.."
