Apple may not be celebrating its most recent mark of popularity. According to Corporate Counsel alumnus Joe Mullin on ArsTechnica, with 92 lawsuits in three years, the tech company is complaining they’re the top mark of patent trolls, and they’re divulging some company secrets while they’re at it.
“No firm has been targeted by PAEs (patent assertion entities) more than Apple,” the company wrote in public comments to the Federal Trade Commission, according to Mullin. He says Apple’s most recent filings at both the FTC and at the U.S. Supreme Court by way of amicus brief are unusual because they offer a lot of detail into the company’s patent battles. “Apple shared a statistic that companies usually keep to themselves: how many cases it settled,” writes Mullin. “Of the 92 cases filed recently, 57 are closed cases; in 51 of those cases, Apple paid the troll.”
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