patent lawsuit

According to a report from Reuters, Apple has been ordered to pay the University of Wisconsin’s intellectual property management arm $234 million in damages for infringing on one of its processor patents. Earlier this week, a jury ruled that Apple has infringed on a patent owned by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) when it...

Just a few months after a federal jury found Apple's iTunes software violated three Smartflash patents, a federal judge has dismissed the $532.9 million damages award, reports Reuters. The ruling was handed down on Tuesday by US District Judge Rodney Gilstrap, who said that his "jury instructions might have 'skewed' jurors' understanding of the damages that...