Now Apple has to pay more than $ 300 million to patent trolls

Apple has to pay $ 308.5 million to the patent administrator "Personalized Media Communications". Among other things, it is about licenses for iTunes, with which the patent administrator, who is decried as a patent troll, wants to earn a lot.

For years, Apple has been in litigation with the patent administrator "Personalized Media Communications" (PMC). This case now goes back to a lawsuit in 2015. At that time, the patent administrator had recourse to Apple for patent infringements. The company demanded damages in connection with the digital rights management that Apple uses in various products.

It still goes on

A federal court in Texas has now ruled, according to the Reuters news agency, that Apple has to pay around $ 308.5 million to PMC. The federal court had come to the conclusion that the tech giant Apple had infringed a PMC patent. Now Apple is supposed to pay an ongoing license fee in addition to compensation for past payments.

For Apple, however, the last word has not yet been spoken in this case. A spokesman confirmed that they were surprised and disappointed with the jury's verdict and that they plan to appeal. "Cases like this brought up by companies that don't manufacture or sell products stifle innovation and ultimately harm consumers," Reuters said in an emailed statement, quoting Reuters as saying iPhone group.

Dispute over the PMC patent

Apple won the original patent lawsuit. The licensing was successfully challenged at the US patent office since according to Apple it is a so-called "trivial patent". For years there has been an argument not only in the tech industry about which inventions and patents are really patentable developments - or not. An appeals court overturned the decision on the patent in March of last year, paving the way for the new process. PMC has been purely a patent administrator for years, buying up patents, for example, in order to generate income through license fees. PMC has also been covering well-known companies with patent litigation for years. In addition to Apple, these include Google, Amazon, and Netflix.

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