Apple violated a patent and the judge recommended to ban the iPhone import to the United States.

"I will recommend that a limited exclusion order be imposed (…) on Apple," said Judge MaryJoan McNamara in a resolution of the International Trade Commission, based in Washington.

Following this announcement, the actions of Qualcomm on Wall Street, they gained 2.84% on 19H20 GMT, while those of Apple yielded 1.11%.

The two American technology companies were involved in a long battle for patents and the copyright that has been developed in the courts and administrative bodies around the world.

The smartphone component manufacturer won a judicial victory 11 days ago, when a California federal court sentenced Apple to pay him $ 31 million for patent infringement on his chips iPhone 7, 8 and X.

In this case, the patents in question are the cellular starter system, which allows devices to quickly connect to the Internet after activation, and the technology that allows smart phone applications to process data more efficiently.

Qualcomm accuses the apple brand of using its technologies without paying them. Apple claims that the component manufacturer claims unjustified rights.

In late 2018, Qualcomm managed to get a German court to ban the sale of certain iPhones under certain conditions, following a similar decision in China shortly before.

Qualcomm has been supplying Apple's Modem chips for a long time, a piece to connect the smartphone to telecommunication networks.

But Apple has stopped buying Qualcomm chips to replace them with the giant Intel integrated circuit.