A US appeals court reversed the verdict in the case he faced Apple allegations by Smartflash LLC. This case was first decided two years ago by a federal court in Texas, which Applu ordered an unknown company, Smartflash LLC, to pay damages of 533 million US dollars for the misuse of patents that Apple allegedly infringed on its iTunes music store.
Chief Judge Sharon Prost of the US Federal Court of Appeals in Washington, to which Apple appealed, however, stating in its verdict that Smartflash had not created any new patent-eligible technology. The company's claims, he said, are focused on the abstract idea of user access to data based on payment of a fee, and fail to translate those abstract ideas into something tangible enough to be considered a patent.
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The judge went on to state: "The Supreme Court, like this court, has previously held that such routine computer activities are insufficient to grant a patent. Smartflash does not provide any products, has no employees,ance, creates no jobs, does not operate in the US, and uses our patent system to seek royalties on the technology it invented Apple.” With these relatively sharp, but all the more true words, the trial ended and Apple he was acquitted of the original verdict, which ordered him to pay over half a billion US dollars.
After all, sometimes they have sense there.