A US judge has ordered Apple to pay more than half a billion dollars to a university after the tech firm failed to abide by an earlier court ruling.<\/p>\n
Apple was sued in 2014 for allegedly using a technology developed by a professor and his students in its iPhone chips without the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s permission.<\/p>\n
Apple was ordered to pay about $234m (\u00a3179m) when it lost the patent case.<\/p>\n
That sum has now been more than doubled because it continued to use the tech.<\/p>\n
The judge said that additional damages and interest brought the sum owed to $506m.<\/p>\n
However, Apple still hopes to overthrow the fine by appealing against the original jury verdict.<\/p>\n
The penalty is still less than the $862m the university had originally sought in damages.<\/p>\n
That is because Apple was found not to have deliberately infringed the university’s microchip technology.<\/p>\n
The patent in question outlined a way to boost computing performance by\u00a0predicting how\u00a0processors are about to be used.<\/p>\n
The original case covered Apple’s use of the invention in its A7, A8 and A8X processors, which are found in devices including the iPhone 5S and the iPad Air 2.<\/p>\n
Apple did not re-engineer the chips after losing the dispute in 2015 nor pull the relevant products from sale, and thus became liable for the additional payout.<\/p>\n
The university is also seeking further compensation for Apple’s continued infringement of the patent in its A9 and A9X chips, which power its iPhone 6S and iPad Pro models.<\/p>\n
However, the follow-up legal action has been put on hold until Apple’s appeal has been considered.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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