Do you knowCalTech? This is the nickname of the California Institute of Technology, a university based in Pasadena and whose creation dates back to 1891. Like many establishments of this type in the United States, it allows its students and professors to go further than their simple curriculum by working in research. And in certain cases, this activity can be similar to that of a business.
Thus, members of the school sometimes create innovative systems that advance current production techniques. For example,Wi-Fi chipswere imagined a few years ago with the aim of making telecommunications faster.
The affair
The problem is that Apple andBroadcomwould have based themselves on these components to market their own products, without seeking authorization from the California Institute of Technology. Patents having been filed by the latter to protect his invention, he therefore finally decided to take his case to court in 2016.
Nearly three years later, the verdict is final: the two accused companies will have to pay back$838 millionAmericans to the plaintiff. The pumped devices in question would in particular be:
- the iPad
- l’iPhone
- AirPort routers that are no longer sold
- le HomePod
- Mac computers
- l’Apple Watch
- l’Apple TV
Tim Cook's firm counts wellto appealof this decision. We will therefore have to wait a little longer before knowing the end of the story. This is not the first time that a judgment with an amount of this order has been pronounced: we remember in particularthe hefty fine received by Qualcomm last year. Furthermore, Apple is regularly dragged into court bypatent trollsso much so thatshe tries to stem the phenomenon by calling on elected officials.
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