Today, one after the other media reports that Apple lost the next trial. The amount of compensation that she has to pay the injured party will be $ 23.6 million.
The reason the case was illegal use of Apple's patents issued in the period of the late nineties, the manufacturer of pagers.
They were developed by Mobile Telecommunications Technologies LLC and has long been used in wireless transmission of text messages to pagers SkyTel. It will be recalled that patents have a shelf life and after some time they have ownership of the right expires.
At present patents owned company MTT United Wireless, which uses them to service facilities, and since Apple does not receive from them permission to use these technologies, the judgment was not in favor of the latter.
Patent infringement plaintiff were fixed in such device, as AirPort, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Incidentally, the amount originally demanded United Wireless for material and moral damage from illegal use, was $ 237.2 million. The court ruled to compensate the amount of ten times less.
Meanwhile, even after sentencing blame Apple does not recognize, and the company's lawyers yet ready to compete with United Wireless in the Court of Appeal.
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