Apple Inc. sought this week to avoid a ban on the sale of older iPhones in China by releasing a software update that some intellectual property lawyers said could enable the company to keep selling those products in the world’s largest smartphone market.
The move by Apple came in response to a preliminary injunction from a Chinese court that ordered the company to stop selling iPhones while it studies Apple’s suspected infringement of two software patents held by chip maker Qualcomm Inc. The two American giants in the smartphone…
