A few months ago I told you that representatives of the Swiss railways sued Apple accusing the American company by copying the design of a watch made in 1944 by a Swiss engineer. Instead of continuing a process, Apple chose to reach an agreement with the Swiss for the use of this design and will pay 21 million dollars to continue using it. The amount is small, the Swiss were not from the very beginning interested in obtaining money, but only in clarifying the situation and in the end it was clarified in their favor.
GENEVA — US tech giant Apple has dished out 20 million Swiss francs ($21 million, 17 million euros) to compensate the Swiss national rail operator SBB for using its famous clock without permission, a Swiss daily reported Saturday. The company agreed in October to pay the lump sum so it could continue using SBB's Swiss-designed station clock face on its iPads and iPhones, the Tages-Anzeiger daily reported on its website, quoting several unnamed sources.
Apple has been using this design in its iOS for years, it is good that it has finally been shown whose it is and that Apple is paying for the infringement of the intellectual property rights owned by the Swiss.
