The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation(WARF) had filed a suit against Apple claiming that the iPhone 5S, iPad Mini with Retina Display and iPad Air run on the processing architecture designed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and patented in 1998.Apple implemented it as the Cortex A7 processor.The lawsuit asks for damages and cease of the sale of all the devices running on the A7 processor without a licensing payment. A jury on Tuesday decided that Apple has infringed the patent and it could face damages of around $862 million.WARF manages all the patents of the University of Wisconsin.
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The lawsuit was filed early last year.The jury began hearing the case last week and on Tuesday it found Apple liable for infringement.
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According to the website Law360, Apple faces a maximum damage payment of $862.4 million.It isn't clear when the award would be decided and if the figure could change.Apple and WARF haven't commented on this verdict.
The U.S. patent in number 5,781,752, describes a “Table based data speculation circuit for parallel processing computer.” It was awarded to four researchers at the University of Wisconsin in July 1998.
WARF had suggested in its complaint that Apple had been aware of the patent.It also stated that Apple had stated a policy not to accept licensing proposals from outside entities like WARF thus forcing them to file the lawsuit.
