Jury Tells Apple To Pay $532.9 Million In Patent Suit

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @03:21AM from the or-remit-821,110-iphones dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Smartflash LLC has won a patent lawsuit against Apple over DRM and technology relating to the storage of downloaded songs, games, and videos on iTunes. Apple must now pay $532.9 million in damages. An Apple spokesperson did not hesitate to imply Smartflash is a patent troll: "Smartflash makes no products, has no employees, creates no jobs, has no U.S. presence, and is exploiting our patent system to seek royalties for technology Apple invented. We refused to pay off this company for the ideas our employees spent years innovating and unfortunately we have been left with no choice but to take this fight up through the court system." The trial happened in the same court that decided Apple owed VirnetX $368 million over FaceTime-related patents back in 2012.

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Live by the sword... by AmiMoJo · 2015-02-25 03:23 · Score: 5, Informative

... die by the sword. Apple loves abusing patents and is one of the companies behind Rockstar.

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