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In a retrial against Apple Inc., Friday, a federal jury in Marshall ordered Apple to pay Optis a $300 million lump sum for the infringement of five patents that relate
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has won a $506.2 million patent damages award against Optis Wireless Technology. A federal judge tossed the patent damages award, saying that Apple was in a position to argue that Optis Wireless, which is the patent owner, was making unfair royalty demands. However, the judge didn’t throw out the liability finding. Judge throws Optisâ damage award claim It is vital to note that Optis and its partners in the claim Unwired Planet LLC and PanOptis Patent management had said that the iPhone maker’s tablets, watches, and smartphones operating in the LTE cellular ...
VLSI Technology v. Intel trial in Waco before Judge Alan Albright. That trial will continue on Monday. It seems to me that many technology industry and patent professionals have sympathy for Intel because it already suffered so much last month when the first VLSI trial ended in a $2.2 billion damages award. At the same time, hardly anyone expects that first VLSI award to be upheld, simply because appeals courts typically reverse such decisions (sometimes reducing damages to zero by finding no infringement or holding the asserted patents invalid). For example, just yesterday Apple--Intel's all...