Apple and Broadcom have to pay university 1 billion after patent infringement

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/30/2020 10:24 AM | source: | 12 comment(s)

Apple and the American chipmaker Broadcom must jointly pay a nearly nauseating amount of money of (1.1 billion dollars to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for patent infringement.

A jury has decided that the companies have committed the violation of three patents, Law360 reports. It concerns patents regarding the use of wifi chips. The technology described is used in hundreds of millions of chips for iPhones, iPads and MacBooks worldwide to improve its operation. Caltech sued Apple in 2016 for patent infringement. Apple and Broadcom denied that they had infringed the relevant patents. According to Law360 , the companies argued that the technology described is unusable and that they had no reason to violate the patents, knowingly or unknowingly. Broadcom tells Law360 that it is planning to appeal against the jury's verdict. Apple has not responded to the news service.

Apple has been charged $ 839 million, Broadcom must reimburse $ 270 million.

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geogan
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#5755858 Posted on: 01/30/2020 03:36 PM

Surely a good Lawyer would compile all the relative details and jargon into a somewhat understandable script to present to the Jury? That's what I think anyway.

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#5755862 Posted on: 01/30/2020 03:54 PM

What kind of lawyer would be qualified to understand any of the technical details of this supposed infringement?

The whole thing sounds like a joke.

Guaranteed if you asked any of the jurors any type of technical question about it they wouldn't have a clue. And then it is just "Do you think Apple is big and bad? - if so you must return GUILTY"

I don't know any of the details... I just think logically, you would pay the right person to do the job, not just some random guy, considering the amount of money we're talking about.

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#5755868 Posted on: 01/30/2020 04:19 PM

Good for these pieces of trash.

BTW, do Apple still have anti-suicide net at their Foxconn mega-facility ???

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#5755870 Posted on: 01/30/2020 04:27 PM

What kind of jury would be qualified to understand any of the technical details of this supposed infringement???? Might as well have a jury of monkeys throwing bananas.

They probably have a tech expert as a witness who explain why it infringes on the patent. It's quite common to use such experts in many hearings, same as in countries with laws based on civil code and therefore no jury. Judges too are only experts on law and nothing else.

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#5755895 Posted on: 01/30/2020 05:23 PM

Just a point, it is not finished yet, this is the 1st judgement, Apple have bring on the table that they were just client of Broadcom...
Next judgement will tell if Broadcom pay more or if it will stay this way...

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