Apple Told to Pay $300 Million After Wireless Patent Retrial
- Trial in Texas focused only on damages in Optis patent dispute
- Case hinged on ‘fair’ rate for industry’s cellular standard
This article is for subscribers only.
Apple Inc. was told to pay $300 million in royalties after a retrial in a patent dispute over wireless technology used in its iPhones and other products, part of a global fight with a company that says it owns patents on the LTE cellular standard.
The jury in Marshall, Texas, said PanOptis Patent Management and its Optis Cellular and Unwired Planet units were owed that amount as a lump sum to cover past and future use of the technology. An earlier jury last year had awarded $506.2 million.