Apple is no more bizarre to patent lawsuits and recently the licensing branch of the University of Wisconsin-Madison filed a lawsuit to the legendary company which may be able to manifest a catastrophic loss for the iPhone maker.
According to Tech Crunch, the lawsuit was split into three main sections; damages, liability and willful infringement. Recently the case was being resolved at a later date and conceivably increasing loss expense for Apple.
On the document presented by the jury of the United States, Apple's iPhone 5S, iPhone 6 and the new iPhone 6S model carry Apple's chips such as A7, A8 and A8X that contain technology covered by a patent filed in 1998 by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF). U.S. District Judge and presiding Judge William Conley stated that Apple could possibly owe approximately $862 million damages. Though, the court will still be the one to decide how much exactly Apple needs to pay to WARF.
Under U.S. Patent No. 5, 781, 752 questions for a "Table based data speculation circuit for parallel processing computer" are intended to make computer chips more advanced and power-efficient by using branch predictor, iDigital Times reported.
In response to the lawsuit, Apple denied the accusations that WARF had thrown over them and they stated that the patent is unsound. Later, the iPhone maker company requested the U.S. Patent and Trademark office to conduct further review on the legality of the patent, however their request was denied.
The above lawsuit is barely the end of patent woes of the company. However, last month WARF filed another lawsuit that says Apple's newest chips A9 and A9 processors present in iPhone 6 and in their latest iPad Pro respectively violate the patent.
Following the report in 2009, WARF filed the same lawsuit over Intel for a similar patent violation but was settled out of court.
