{"id":9845,"date":"2022-02-04T17:35:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T17:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/04\/apple-broadcom-win-new-damages-trial-in-1-1b-caltech-patent-case\/"},"modified":"2022-02-04T17:35:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T17:35:06","slug":"apple-broadcom-win-new-damages-trial-in-1-1b-caltech-patent-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/04\/apple-broadcom-win-new-damages-trial-in-1-1b-caltech-patent-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple, Broadcom win new damages trial in $1.1B Caltech patent case"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A U.S. appeals court has granted Apple and supply chain partner Broadcom a win by tossing out a jury verdict requiring the two companies to pay $1.1 billion for patent infringement. <\/p>\n

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Apple and its supplier then sought to overturn the results of that trial, suggesting that it had been conducted with “multiple legal errors<\/a>.” On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit sided with Apple and Broadcom, stating that the $1.1 billion in damages was not justified by the evidence, Reuters<\/em> reported<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The court has ordered a new damages trial that will reconsider the awarded sum, but not the patent infringement. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In its original lawsuit, Caltech claimed that Apple’s iPhone<\/a>, iPad<\/a>, and other products infringed on Wi-Fi patents held by the university. Those patents focused on Wi-Fi codes that are meant to simplify encoding and decoding for better performance and data transmission. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Broadcom, a supplier of Apple Wi-Fi chips at the time, was also named in the patent. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Back in 2020, a jury found Apple and Broadcom guilty of patent infringement. As a result, Apple was ordered to pay $838 million and Broadcom was ordered to pay $270 million. An Apple attempt in invalidate some of the patent claims did not pan out. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Caltech, which is based in Pasadena, California, has also sued a number of other technology giants, including Microsoft, Samsung, and Dell.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n