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Apple was ordered to pay $234 million to University of Wisconsin for infringing patent

October 20, 2015EconomyOmkar Sawant

A U.S. jury ordered Apple Inc to pay the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s patent licensing arm more than $234 million in damages for incorporating its microchip technology into some of the company’s iPhones and iPads without permission.

However, the amount is less than the $400 million the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) was claiming.

What was the issue?

  • In January 2014, the WARF (the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s patent licensing arm) filed a case against the Apple alleging infringement of its 1998 patent on a “predictor circuit”.
  • The predictor circuit was developed by a team led by Indian-origin computer science professors Gurindar Sohi and Terani Vijaykumar.
  • As per the WARF, the technology was used by Apple for improving the performance of its computer processors namely A7, A8 and A8X processors, found in the iPhone 5s, 6 and 6 Plus and recently released iPhone 6s and 6s plus as well as several versions of the iPad.
  • So, the WARF sued the leading chip maker Intel Corp (INTC.O) for infringing the same patent in 2008 and got 110 million US dollars as compensation.
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