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17 October 2015

Apple patent case: the impact of the success of the University of Wisconsin

A US judge patent infringement damages $ 234m (£ 152m) to pay for the technology giant Apple has ordered more.

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Wisconsin, Madison, patent licensing arm of the University, said that it was important to protect its inventions from unauthorized use judgment.

Apple iPhones and iPads without the prior permission of the jury in a patent decision that Microchip Technology Incorporated.

 Apple announced that it would appeal.

 The company declined to comment further.

 The foundation was less than the amount claimed. It originally had sought as much as $ 862m.

 The judge ruled that Apple have deliberately infringed the patent in part because the amount was less.

Designed to increase the performance of computer processors - computer science professor metican Gurindar Sohi, a University of microchip technology innovators, that decision at Madison, Wisconsin, was in federal court.

"Dr. Sohi, I hope you realized that your discovery vindicated, '' said US District Judge William Conley.

Carl Gulbrandsen, managing director of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, said: "This is the hard work of our researchers and university patenting and licensing inventions is a case where integrity prevails.

"The jury recognized the work of computer processing of the player that took place on our campus. ''
The case relates to the use of technology to the iPhone 5s, 6 and 6 Plus - but Apple's new model, the same claim against the 6s and 6s plus an additional case was also filed.

University of Wisconsin, the case settled out of court for a sum sued Intel in 2008 over the same patent.

Some big tech companies, despite truces between the recent and well-publicized, bitter patent battles are still fought in the courts in the world.

A judge recently three of its patents have been infringed by Samsung and others that threw out claims by Nvidia graphic card specialist.

In 2014, Apple's revenue for the year was $ 182bn.



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