Apple and Broadcom have been ordered to pay the full amount $ 1 billion at the California Institute of Technology for copyright infringement related to the Caltech company's Wi-Fi transmission.
All of this comes just days after the company was fined a $ 85 million payment to WiLAN, a Canadian wireless telecommunications company.
In this case, for now, Apple will have to pay $ 838 million, while Broadcom should pay $ 270 million.
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Caltech Demand at Apple and Broadcom
In 2016, Contech filed a lawsuit against Broadcom and Apple, claiming that both companies had violated a series of registered patents between 2006 and 2012. IRA / LDPC which improve data transmission and performance.
According to Caltech, Apple has infringed four of its patents and products IPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, Apple TV, Airport and Apple Watch. A judge ruled today that Apple and Broadcom violated three of these four policies.
Since Apple and Broadcom have denied that they have infringed patents, they have asked the court to make the patent legal. Apple won't pay for it yet, and has appealed the judge's decision.
As reported by Macrumors, Apple believes Caltech didn't file a lawsuit until 2016, six years after the 802.11n standard was published. Therefore, the time limit for receiving financial compensation would have expired. In addition, since the signing of the apple logo they have been bitten they want to dispute that Contete does not, does not use, or sells products that use the technology specified in the patents.
We'll see how this case unfolds, but apparently Apple has just been sentenced to pay more penalties.