Apple owes a $300 million lump sum for infringing wireless standard-essential patents owned by IP management company Optis Wireless Technology and its affiliates, a federal jury in an East Texas federal court said Friday after a four-day trial.
A jury ruled last year in the same case that Apple owed $506 million for infringing Plano, Texas-based Optis, PanOptis Patent Management, and Unwired Planet’s LTE patents with technology found in its iPhone and other LTE-capable products. U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap ordered a new trial in his Marshall, Texas, court in April, after finding the award may not have been in line with Optis’ responsibility to license the patents on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms.
“We thank the jury for their time but are disappointed by the verdict and plan to appeal,” Apple spokesperson Josh Rosenstock said in an email. “Optis makes no products and its sole business is to sue companies using patents they accumulate. We will continue to defend against their attempts to extract unreasonable payments.”
Apple’s attorney Mark Selwyn of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment, nor did Optis and its attorneys Jason Sheasby and Annita Zhong of Irell & Manella.
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