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Apple was ordered to pay $85 million in a jury trial before the San Diego District Court in San Diego, California, for infringing the patents of Canadian technology license company Wilan.
The trial is a review of the 2018 Wylan’s $145 million indemnity trial. Apple lost, but it was reduced for now. The lawsuit was filed in 2014 by Wylan that the iPhone 6 and 7 infringed its patents. Two patents became the main issue. One is the bandwidth request protocol method and device of the wireless communication system, and the other is the adaptive call admission control used in the wireless communication system, and a combination of these is to realize a download method when making a call.
In response to the 2018 ruling, Apple objected that Wi-Lan used the wrong method to calculate damages based on the number of iPhones sold. The federal court admitted that the argument was correct and recommended that the ruling be reversed, asking whether to accept the recalculated $10 million indemnity as an alternative or whether to make a new trial, and Wylan chose the latter.
Wireless Technology was established in 1992 with an emphasis on wireless technology development. However, in 2006, he changed his strategy and turned to a license holder. With the aim of helping companies manage their patent portfolios and liberate intellectual property values under licenses, they claim to be one of the most successful patent licensing companies in the world.
The foreign press points out that the revenue from licensing costs accounts for more than half of the company’s holding company, Quarterhill,’s annual sales. It can be said that they point out that it is a patent monster company. In 2011, Wi-Lan filed a lawsuit against 9 companies, including Dell and HP, related to Wi-Fi and LTE technology, and in 2016, filed a claim against Sony in China to ban smartphone sales due to infringement of LTE technology patents. Wyran’s prevailing ruling may have an impact on other patent trials. Related information can be found here .
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