Apple should pay $ 85 million to a Canadian company WiLAN.
Apparently, the bite-sized apple company has violated a series of patents registered by WiLAN and related to wireless communication.
In 2018, a judge sentenced Apple to pay $ 145 million in the case. But in this case a San Diego court has declared that the damages relate to a m inority, $ 85 million in violation of two WiLAN patents.
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WiLAN has been battling Apple in court for 10 years
It's a strong, unequal and unfair battle if you let me. WiLAN has spent the last decade trying to find its own. Exactly since 2010., after accusing Apple of listing one of its Bluetooth products. But so far they have never been successful in court.
WiLAN has requested a price in terms of iPhone sales. Apple argued in his writings that WiLAN didn't provide enough evidence
The disadvantage has reached the point that even one judge refused to agree to a WiLAN because both companies had used it the wrong way to calculate the correct economic value to pay, means that WiLAN can only accept $ 10 million or choose to wait for a new trial. From WiLAN they decided to wait for a new trial.
The case 14-2245 California Southern District Court (San Diego) between Apple Inc. and Wi-LAN Inc have finally decided that Apple is sued for a $ 85 million settlement for damages for infringing on WiLAN's wireless broadband patents. Case closed What do you think about it?
Source | Bloomberg
