Qualcomm’s Antitrust Fine for Payments to Apple Is Annulled by European Court

BRUSSELS—The European Union’s second-highest court docket scrapped a €997 million ($1.04 billion) fine that the bloc’s antitrust regulator had levied on Qualcomm Inc. over funds it made to Apple Inc. for the iPhone maker’s unique use of Qualcomm chips.

The General Court of the European Union on Wednesday mentioned the European Commission, the EU’s government arm, had included plenty of irregularities when it was placing collectively the case-file towards San Diego-based Qualcomm, a provider of chips for telephones, automobiles and different gadgets.