The technology giant Apple will pay $ 234 million to Alumni Research Foundation of the University of Wisconsin for violating a technology patent of this institution, the newspaper Wisconsin State Journal.
This was decided by a jury, whose members established the amount after three hours of deliberations. It was about $ 165 million less than it requested the foundation, but still his legal team smiled broadly and shook hands after the verdict was read.
The same jury on Tuesday found that Apple violated this patent, sparking the damages phase of the trial.
The dispute involved a microprocessor technology Co-Invented by Gurindar Sohi, a professor of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, who was in court to hear the decision.
This innovation improves the speed and efficiency of processors used in popular mobile devices Apple , like the iPhone and iPad, which extends battery life by up to two hours. “For Dr. Sohi, hope feels that his invention has been vindicated,” said US District Judge William Conley.
Rachel Tulley, a spokesman for Apple , only he said the company plans to appeal. Lawyers for the company declined to comment. On the other hand, l Alumni Research Foundation in Wisconsin, a non-profit organization, serves as the technology transfer arm of the University Wisconsin -Madison to patent and market inventions campus.
“This is a case where the hard work of our university researchers and integrity of patent and license discoveries has prevailed,” said Carl Gulbrandsen, managing director of the foundation . “The jury recognized the creative work of computer processing that took place on our campus,” he said.
Morgan Chu, a lawyer for the foundation, asked the judge a royalty of 2.74 dollars per unit, while the lawyer Apple , William Lee, said the violation of the patent worth a royalty of only 7 cents per unit. The number of units involved was a fact jealously guarded only was shown to lawyers and jury, not the public.
The foundation of the University of Wisconsin sued the US Apple in January last year, alleging that it had infringed one of its patents in building a processor for its popular mobile devices such as the iPhone 5S
. Source: AP
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