Jury: – Apple broke patent rights – NRK

The ruling, which could lead to an additional expense of several hundred million dollars for the company, arrived Tuesday.

It is a research foundation in Wisconsin who has sued the company because they believe their patented technology to improve efficiency in microprocessors illegally built into Apple A7 chip in 1998. Four researchers at the University of Wisconsin have developed the appropriate technology.

Seven billion

Now that the jury has given plaintiffs upheld the principal, the case over to the next phase where liability and the amount of any payment to be determined. The court will also consider whether Apple has used the patented technology knowing that the rights belonged to someone else, writes The Guardian.

According to the Wall Street Journal requires research foundation $ 862.4 million, approximately seven billion Norwegian kroner from Apple.

Among Apple products that should be part of patent violation is iPhone 6S, iPhone 5S, iPad Air and iPad Mini with so-called retina.

Apple did not want to comment the matter told AFP. According to court documents from the case they mean that patent to the company Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Warf) was not valid.

The court records also show that the jury has given plaintiffs upheld in all the nine points in the lawsuit.

Earlier lawsuits

Warf sued Intel Corp., a US manufacturer of microprocessors, in 2008. But when the parties arrived at a settlement the day before the case was to be treated in court.

In September came a lawsuit against Apple, which also focused on microprocessors in some of its newer products, including iPhone 6S, 6S Plus and iPad Pro.

It is not the first time Apple must defend themselves in a patent lawsuit. The company has accused Samsung of stealing five items from their smartphone, but then went Samsung to countersued and accused Apple of stealing the ability to stream video from them.

In this case manage Apple depends, one federal jury ruled in a preliminary injunction that Samsung could not produce phones that had technical features that broke with Apple’s patent rights.