Agency Reuters informed that Applu and its Wi-Fi chip supplier Broadcom have reached a settlement with the California Institute of Technology, or Caltech, after years of litigation over wireless communications patents. The specific terms of the settlement were not disclosed, but Caltech has filed a lawsuit against Applu and Broadcom will withdraw.
The institute sued the two tech firms back in 2016, accusing them of infringing a number of Wi-Fi patents that relate to encoding and decoding circuits to improve data transmission and performance. iPhones, iPads, Mac computers and watches were attacked in the lawsuit Apple Watch using Caltech technology.
Company Apple sononec filed a countersuit seeking to have the patents invalidated, but was unsuccessful. In 2020, a jury ruled that the companies in question did infringe Caltech's patents and Applu was ordered to pay $838 million, while Broadcom was ordered to pay $270 million.
Together, these exceed an astronomical $1,1 billion, which would represent one of the largest sums in U.S. history for a patent dispute. Companies Apple and Broadcom appealed the decision, and a federal appeals court ruledonec ruled that although both infringed Caltech patents, the amount of damages awarded was not justified.
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On this basis, a new trial was ordered, which would the amount they have Apple and Broadcom to reimburse the injured California Institute of Technology, he recalculated. Instead of further court proceedings, however, the parties involved already told the court in August that they were preparing a potential settlement, which is now becoming official.
