Apple to Pay $532.9M in Patent Infringement Verdict
Jury found that Apple willfully infringed on patents protecting the storage and access of music.
February 24, 2015 at 07:43 PM
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On Feb. 24 a federal jury in Texas found Apple Inc. guilty of infringing upon multiple patents owned by licensing firm Smartflash, and ordered Apple to pay $532.9 million in damages.
The lawsuit, which was filed in May 2013, focused on technology patents that allows a media platform to access and store songs. Smartflash argued that Apple's popular iTunes software infringed on those patents and demanded $852 million in damages.
Apple said that because the patents cited in the suit were covered by previously existing technologies they should be invalid, and the case should be thrown out.
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