The ten-year legal battle between Apple and the University of Wisconsin may finally be over, with the university denied its latest attempt to regain half a billion dollars from the iPhone company.
Apple’s A7 processor is among the ones included in the University of Wisconsin’s patent case
Apple’s A7 processor is among the ones included in the University of Wisconsin’s patent case
The suit filed originally in 2014 concerned the iPhone 5s, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, as well as a number of iPad models. According to the university’s patent division, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), Apple infringed on its 1998 “predictor circuit” in its A7, A8, and A8X processors.
Apple denied the claim, saying that its processors worked differently to the method described in the patent. Nonetheless, in 2015, a Wisconsin jury found Apple guilty, and initially WARF was awarded $234 million.