Apple agrees to pay $25 million settlement in patent infringement case News
Apple agrees to pay $25 million settlement in patent infringement case

Apple [corporate website] agreed on Friday to a $25 million settlement [AppleInsider report] with Network-1 Technologies to end a patent infringement claim. The claim involved U.S. Patent No. 6,006,227 (227 Patent) [text], a “document stream operating system” that organizes files chronologically. The original claim involved multiple patents and proceeded to a jury trial in which Mirror Worlds, a subsidiary of Network-1, was awarded $625 million. This award was later overturned, prompting the instant claim also filed by Mirror Worlds regarding only the 227 Patent. The settlement includes more than a payout; Apple will now have a nonexclusive and fully-paid license to use the technology, as well as license to use some of Network-1’s other technologies.

Apple has recently been involved in numerous patent infringement battles. In June the Beijing Intellectual Property Bureau ordered [JURIST report] Apple to stop sale of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in Beijing due to claims by Chinese regulators that Apple Inc. violated a patent held by a Chinese company. In April Apple agreed to pay $24.9 million to Dynamic Advances and parent company Marathon Patent Group to settle a 2012 patent lawsuit [JURIST report] concerning Apple’s voice-controlled interface, Siri. The US Supreme Court [official website] announced [JURIST report] in March that it will hear Samsung’s appeal against Apple regarding Apple’s 2012 victory in a patent dispute. Also in March the Dusseldorf District Court [official website, in German] ruled [JURIST report] that Apple products infringe upon video streaming patents belonging to the Kudeleski Group, a Swiss security company.

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