(Reuters) - A U.S. choose on Monday ordered Apple Inc to pay $506 million for violating a patent owned by the University of Wisconsin-Madison's patent licensing arm, extra than doubling the damages first of all imposed on Apple by using a jury.
U.S. District decides William Conley in Madison introduced $272 million to a $234 million jury verdict the Wisconsin Alumni research basis gained in opposition to Apple in October 2015. Conley stated WARF is owed extra damages plus interest due to the fact Apple persisted to infringe the patent, which pertains to PC processor generation, until it expired in December 2016.
Apple is appealing Conley's ruling, consistent with court papers. An Apple spokesman did not at once go back a request for comment.
WARF sued Apple in 2014, alleging processors discovered in a few variations of the iPhone infringe on a patent describing a "predictor circuit," which improves processor performance by means of predicting what commands a person will give the machine. college of Wisconsin PC technology professor Gurindar Sohi and 3 of his college students obtained the patent in 1998.
Cupertino, California-based Apple denied any infringement in the course of a 2015 jury trial and argued the patent is invalid. Apple also urged the U.S. Patent and Trademark workplace to study the patent's validity however the agency rejected that bid.
WARF brought a separate lawsuit towards Apple in 2015, alleging chips in later versions of the iPhone infringe the same patent. Conley said he would not rule if so till Apple has had an opportunity to attract the 2015 jury verdict.