GlobalFoundries said it has filed 25 patent infringement lawsuits against Apple supplier TSMC and is seeking an injunction to have certain iPhones, AirPods and other products banned from import into the US and Germany.
The semiconductor manufacturer, based in Santa Clara, California, said it is seeking “significant damages” from Taiwan-based TSMC based on allegations of “unlawful use?.?.?.?of proprietary technology in [TSMC’s] tens of billions of dollars of sales.”
The group filed five lawsuits alleging that semiconductor manufacturing technologies used by TSMC infringed on 16 of its patents. One of the lawsuits cites details in “confidential exhibits” allegedly showing that the TSMC processors in question were used in the design of at least six Apple products, including the Apple Watch, the iPad Mini, the TV 4K and the XS iPhone.