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一 | 北京时间1月16日早些时候，路透社报道，美国专利商标局决定加入苹果和大通之间数十亿美元的专利许可战。

二 | CANBERRA, Australia -- Australian journalist Cheng Lei says she spent more than three years in detention in China for breaking an embargo with a television broadcast on a state-run TV network.Cheng‘s first television interview since she was freed was broadcast in Australia on Tuesday almost a week after she returned to her mother and two children, aged 11 and 14, in the city of Melbourne.The Chinese-born 48-year-old was an English-language anchor for state-run China Global Television Network in Beijing when she was detained in August 2020.She said her offense was breaking a government-imposed embargo by a few minutes following a briefing by officials.Her treatment in custody was designed to “drive home that point that in China that is a big sin,” Cheng told Sky News Australia. “That you have hurt the motherland and that the state’s authority has been eroded because of you.” “What seems innocuous to us here is –- I’m sure it’s not limited to embargoes, but many other things -- are not in China, especially (because) I’m given to understand that the gambit of state security is widening,” she said.Cheng did not give details about the embargo breach.Her account differs from the crime outlined by China’s Ministry of State Security last week.The ministry said Cheng was approached by a foreign organization in May 2020 and provided them with state secrets she had obtained on the job in violation of a confidentiality clause signed with her employer. A police statement did not name the organization or say what the secrets were.A Beijing court convicted her of illegally providing state secrets abroad and she was sentenced to two years and 11 months, the statement said. She was deported after the sentencing because of the time she had already spent in detention.Observers suspect the real reason Cheng was released was persistent lobbying from the Australian government and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s planned trip to China this year on a date yet to be set.Cheng said that a visit to a toilet at the court on the morning before she was sentenced was the first time in more than three years that she had sat on a toilet or seen her reflection in a mirror.Her commercial airline flight from Beijing to Melbourne was the first time she had slept in darkness in three years because the lights were always left on at night in the detention facilities.Cheng migrated to Australia with her parents at age 10. She said she struggles to answer when asked how she has been since her return.“Sometimes I fell like an invalid, like a newborn and very fragile,” Cheng said. “And other times I feel like I could fly and I want to embrace everything and I enjoy everything so intensely and savor it.”。专利审判和上诉委员会决定考虑高通公司两项专利的有效性。苹果及其盟友英特尔声称，这两项专利不涉及新发明，委员会已展开初步分析，以确定苹果是否有“合理的可能性”赢得这场争论。委员会将听取双方的意见，并将在大约一年内作出最终决定。这个问题只涉及苹果和英特尔针对高通公司发起的几十项挑战中的前十几项，以及高通公司在移动通信领域的巨大专利组合中的少数几个。

三 | 高通公司是世界上最大的移动电话芯片制造商，其许多技术支持所有现代移动电话系统。英特尔为苹果最新一代的iPhone提供芯片，双方已经向美国专利商标局提交了30多个挑战。他们希望在高通公司的专利中找到漏洞。

四 | 苹果一直在积极使用美国专利商标局的审查委员会。以这种方式挑战专利有效性比向联邦法院上诉更快更便宜。苹果和高通公司正在就后者收取的许可费展开全球专利战。苹果公司辩称，曾经供应芯片的公司利用其在市场上的优势迫使其付款。

五 | 高通公司反驳说，苹果使用了自己的知识产权，但没有为此支付费用，并称苹果已经提起诉讼，要求其降低许可费。美国联邦贸易委员会（FTC）同意苹果对高通授权的看法，该机构对高通公司的反垄断诉讼已进入第二周。高通公司表示，苹果已经一年多没有向其支付任何费用，导致其损失数十亿美元的利润。高通公司对每部手机的零售价收取一定比例的费用，无论该设备是否使用该公司的芯片。苹果认为高通公司应该对组件收费，而不是对整个手机收费。