US court grants Apple and Broadcom new trial in billion-dollar patent case

Date:
Mon, 07 Feb 2022 18:25:23 +0000

Description:
Judge says original ruling was legally unsupportable.

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A US court has overturned a January 2020 ruling that ordered Apple and Broadcom to pay the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) $1.1 billion in damages over the alleged infringement of its intellectual property.

CalTech had successfully argued that Broadcoms Wi-Fi chips used in the iPhone used innovations described in its patents related to data transmission technologies and Apple was told to pay $737.8 million and Broadcom $270.2 million.

However, the academic institutions damages model was based on an argument
that it could have simultaneously negotiated licences with both Apple and Broadcom. iPhone Broadcom retrial

Apple at the time had argued that the infringements described by CalTech related to Broadcoms technology and that it was only a customer of the chipmaker. This, it said, meant that the universitys grievance was with Broadcom.

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has now rejected CalTechs theory and said the original ruling was legally unsupportable.

The mere fact that Broadcom and Apple are separate infringers alone does not support treating the same chips differently at different stages in the supply chain," Judge Richard Linn is quoted as saying by the Reuters news agency. "Caltech's two-tier damages theory is legally unsupportable on this record."

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The dispute will now be resolved in a new trial, while Linn has also called for a trial to determine whether a third patent was infringed.

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Via Reuters



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