Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), lost yesterday a lawsuit filed by the WiLan company some time ago, and the Americans are obliged to pay the amount of 145.1 million dollars as compensation. Those from Apple were found guilty by a California jury of copying technologies protected by two patents held by the Canadian company for some time.
Apple would have implemented in the iPhone wireless technologies that would have been protected by patents by those from WiLan, and the Americans had not licensed them in advance. We are talking about two technologies that manage the way the iPhone connects and uses wireless networks, probably GSM ones, not necessarily Wi-Fi, WiLan being very happy with today's decision.
Apple LOSES a Lawsuit in which it is ACCUSED of COPYING some Technologies
Apple and WiLan have met in court in the past, and in 2013 the company from Cupertino won a trial based on wireless communication technologies. WiLan is part of a group of companies that boasts the fact that it has a vast portfolio of patents that it licenses to a variety of manufacturers around the world.
"In a trial verdict rendered on August 1 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California a jury awarded WiLAN $ 145.1 million in damages against Apple Inc. for infringement of WiLAN's US patent Nos 8,457,145 and 8,537,757."
Apple will certainly attack this decision, as it is not final, so it remains to be seen how successful it will be in winning over those from WiLan in changing this verdict. It is possible that Apple will not win this process in the end, and will be forced to pay a very large amount of money for the infringement of the technologies.
For Apple, which never copies, bravo...!
Apple lost a new lawsuit, so it still has losses on the copying asset. SRB thunder and lightning like Apple doesn't copy, it just innovates. Today they innovated a failure, out of many.
Hahaha…! If you don't mind, can I also write SUPERB?
Superb, I can't believe something like that:))) apple copied??? she who is the most innovative...
Is it just me or does Apple have the best wireless charging system? It never works for me. Samsung always gives me a headache.
Superb ?✌️✌️?coward !!!!!