The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) sued Apple , one of the world's largest technology companies, for patent use in 2016 . Apple, who was sentenced to pay $ 835 million as a result of the lawsuit , appealed. After the appeal, which resulted in Apple's favor, it was said that a $ 838 million fine should be paid.
Caltech lawsuit filed by the court, Apple's total of 838 million dollars , Broadcom if the company is worth $ 270 million had decided to make the payment. Apple and Broadcom, who took action after the jury decision last January, announced that they would appeal the file.
Apple and Broadcom said in the early days of the case that they had not violated the patents mentioned. At the beginning of the case, the world-famous university demanded a total of $ 1.1 billion from the two companies.
Caltech's lawyers said that the patent in question was used in almost every product produced by Apple, and that patent infringing products were sold more than 538 million throughout the USA. The university, which demanded money for each product sold separately, cut a bill of 1.1 billion dollars in total.
Apple, on the other hand , stated that the patent they used was open source . In other words, he claimed that no patent fee could be demanded from the codes accessible to everyone. Apple, who seemed to have built all his defense on it, could not convince the courts. The appeals court also found Caltech right, and decided that the Cupertino-based company should pay the huge figure.
On the topic Broadcom or Apple has not yet announced by. Nevertheless, it was stated that Apple's payment of this sentence has been finalized after the decision was approved by the last legal authority in the USA.
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