{"id":369997,"date":"2017-07-26T09:57:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T01:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/07\/25\/apple-patent-lawsuit-506m-university\/"},"modified":"2017-07-26T09:57:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T01:57:24","slug":"apple-ordered-to-pay-506m-to-university-of-wisconsin-in-a7a8-patent-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/apple-ordered-to-pay-506m-to-university-of-wisconsin-in-a7a8-patent-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Ordered to Pay $506M to University of Wisconsin in A7\/A8 Patent Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2015\/02\/ipad_iphone_ios_8-250x285.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"285\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-439195\"\/>U.S. District Judge William Conley today ordered Apple to pay $506 million to the University of Wisconsin&#8217;s Alumni Research Foundation for infringing on a patent related to computer processing technology used in its A7, A8, and A8X chips, reports <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-ip-apple-patent-idUSKBN1AB023\">Reuters<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The $506 million total is nearly double the $234 million in damages that a Jury <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2015\/10\/16\/apple-university-of-wisconsin-234-million\/\">ordered Apple to pay<\/a> back in 2015, with Conley adding an extra $272 million. According to Conley, Apple owes additional damages along with interest because Apple continued to infringe on the patent until it expired at the end of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit in question <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2015\/10\/13\/apple-loses-a7-patent-lawsuit\/\">dates back<\/a> to 2014, when the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation accused Apple of <a href=\"http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;d=PALL&amp;p=1&amp;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&amp;r=1&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;s1=5,781,752.PN.&amp;OS=PN\/5,781,752&amp;RS=PN\/5,781,752\">infringing on a patent<\/a> titled &#8220;Table based data speculation circuit for parallel processing computer,&#8221; that was originally granted in 1998 and covers a method for improving processor efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>A jury ruled that Apple&#8217;s A7, A8, and A8X processors infringe on the patent, and the university has also filed a second lawsuit covering Apple&#8217;s A9 chips, which has not yet been ruled on.<\/p>\n<p>Apple plans to appeal the judge&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. District Judge William Conley today ordered Apple to pay $506 million to the University of Wisconsin&#8217;s Alumni Research Foundation for infringing on a patent related to computer processing technology used in its A7, A8, and A8X chips, reports Reuters. The $506 million total is nearly double the $234 million in damages that a Jury [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":369998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-369997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}