On various patent lawsuits where Apple acting as both plaintiff and defendant, we update you quite regularly because there is always something going on in this "battlefield". For example, recently Apple he lost at court, when the court decided on the fact that it will have to pay VinteX almost 600 million dollars, including interest and court costs, for patent infringement. Apple does not intend to appeal further in this particular dispute, according to available information. Appeals do not always pay off and often lead to unnecessary delays and increases in court costs. But there are also situations and cases when the appeal will be successful.
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A good example is the recent outcome of another lawsuit where the University of Wisconsin believed that Apple infringed several of its patents in its A-series chips. The plaintiff, when the dispute began in 2015, sought Appwas awarded $862 million in damages, but the jury ruled that Apple did not infringe the patent intentionally, but through negligence. The judge therefore dismissed the obligation Appto pay "only" $234 million. After the first unsuccessful appeal, the amount increased to $506 million, because according to the court Apple continued to infringe patents on newer chips. Apple so he appealed again, straight to the federal court.
Federal Court of Appeals nakonec decided that Apple never infringed any patent. According to the court, it is not possible for anyone to say that a patent was infringed here based on the evidence presented after the first trial in 2015. However, since it was a closed hearing due to the disclosure of trade secrets, no details of the decision are yet available. However, success in court Applu saved considerable expenses for compensation, which he would definitely not want to pay.
