Court rejects Smartflash’s triple damages claim over Apple infringement
A US district court has rejected Smartflash’s attempt to retrieve almost $1.6 billion in damages from Apple for patent infringement after rejecting the argument that the breach was “wilful”.
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6 May 2015 Patent licensing company Smartflash has asked a US court to triple the $532.9 million sum it ordered Apple to pay in a patent dispute, because it claims the infringement was ‘wilful’.
25 February 2015 Apple has been ordered to pay a licensing company more than $500 million in damages after its iTunes software was found to infringe three patents.