Last January, Apple and Broadcom were found guilty ofinfringe a number of Caltech patents y sentenced to pay more than 1.000 million jointly, Apple taking the largest amount of the penalty, 838 million dollars. Apple announced its decision to appeal the ruling.
According to both Bloomberg Law and Reuters, the United States Supreme Court of Appeals, has ruled against the appeal that Apple had raised to overturn the verdict. Apple justified its approach by focusing on patent 7.116.710, a patent that speaks of a "method of encoding a signal."
At the moment the details that Apple argued when it raised that the verdict be overturned are unknown, but according to Reuters, the company cited "reasons of obviousness." Caltech's lawsuit against Apple and Broadcom it affected three patents, all of them related to Wi-Fi connectivity and Balancing speed with factors like heat, power, and chip size.
Apple and Broadcom denied any patent infringement during the trial in addition to questioning the method used by both the lawyers and the jury to set the fine at 1.100 billion dollars. Caltech's lawyers based the claim for compensation on Apple's sales of devices that infringed their patents (598 million) and among which are the iPhone, iPad, Mac, iMac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, HomePod and even AirPorts .
Although the chips were designed and manufactured by Broadcomm, the jury found that Apple was aware of the use it was making of Caltech technologyHence, most of the fine has been taken. We do not know if Apple plans to present another type of appeal to reduce the 838 million dollars it has to pay Caltech for patent infringement. The rest, $ 272 million, will be borne by Broadcom.
