Qualcomm and Apple are currently involved in a pretty ugly legal battle, to the point where Qualcomm trying to get the iPhones banned from being imported into the US. It seems like things are only just getting started, but it looks like Qualcomm is hoping that it won’t drag out as the company’s CEO recently expressed his wish for an out of court settlement.Speaking to Fortune (via MacRumors), Qualcomm’s CEO Steve Mollenkopf said that an out of court settlement is not out of the question. He was quoted as saying, “There’s not really anything new going on. Those things tend to get to resolved out of court and there’s no reason why I wouldn’t expect that to be the case here.”
Note that this does not mean that Qualcomm and Apple are working on resolving their issues, but rather it seems that Qualcomm isn’t closed to the idea of getting this issue resolved quickly. That being said whether or not it will actually happen remains to be seen. In the past we have seen how Apple and Samsung have tried to bury the hatchet in settlement talks as well, but for the most part they have never really been successful, but who knows, maybe this time it could be different?