22 March 2021PatentsAlex Baldwin

Apple to pay $308m over digital rights management infringement

Apple has been ordered to pay $308.5 million in damages to patent licensing company Personalized Media Communications (PMC), after a jury ruled that the tech giant infringed a digital rights management (DRM) patent.

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