In a long and drawn-out Patent Infringement lawsuit, Apple has
recently been sentenced to pay $85 million to Canadian patent firm Wilan for
violating wireless patents.
The case, for which the U.S. District Court for Southern District of
California (San Diego) made this latest ruling, has been bouncing around for
the past many years. The jury now ruled that Apple did infringe upon the
patents and would have to fork over the payment to Quarterhill Inc., the parent
organization of Wilan.
Although this seems a hefty amount for Apple to give out, it could have
been worse or worst. In the year 2018, a different jury in the same suit
decided that Apple should pay Wilan a sum of $145.1 million for damages because
of patent infringement.
Nevertheless, Apple disagreed with the 2018’s court verdict saying that
the damages were calculated inaccurately. Then, after the previous decision was
disputed, a judge agreed with Apple that the damages were unsuitable or high
and proposed Wilan to either accept $10 million in damages or go back to court.
Well, the case once again went back to court, resulting in the sum of $85
million for Apple.
The case revolves around two wireless communication patents held by
Wilan. One related to ‘a method and apparatus for allocating bandwidth in any
broadband wireless communication system’ (U.S. Patent numbered 8457145). Other
associated ‘with communication systems and with methods and systems for
implementing adaptive call admission control’ (U.S. patent numbered 8537757).
According to the long history of animosity amid the two companies,
Quarterhill has often taken Apple to courts but mostly turned unsuccessful in
its fight, as judges not usually convinced that its patents entitled to gain
from the sales of devices such as iPhones.
Apple has also been accused of infringing on patents by many other
companies. For instance, Apple has been involved in a long legal fight with
Qualcomm over royalties for the Intel modems deployed in certain iPhone models.
Moreover, there’s a claim from an Israeli company named Corephotonics Ltd. that
Apple imitated its dual-lens camera technology for the iPhone. Apple, on the
other hand, has also brought Samsung into the court over claims that the South
Korean multinational conglomerate copied its iPhone.
Although it seems likely that Apple will appeal this latest ruling, the
company has not yet announced whether it plans to do so or not. For more
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