Canadian patent buying and licensing company WiLAN said today it has signed a new licensing agreement with Apple. This wireless technology agreement resolves a patent dispute between Apple and WiLAN, just weeks after Apple won an appeal in favor of WiLAN. In accordance with this decision, Apple had to pay $ 85 million for patent infringement.
According to WiLAN’s parent company Quarterhill, the agreement will settle all legal cases between WiLAN, its subsidiary Polaris and Apple in the US, Canada and Germany.
The specific terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Apple sued WiLAN in 2014 seeking a ruling that it did not infringe patents related to wireless bandwidth allocation. WiLAN claimed that the iPhone 5 and 6 smartphones infringe patents when operating in LTE networks.
In February, Apple convinced a US appeals court in Washington to dismiss a jury verdict that ordered Apple to pay $85 million for patent infringement.
This is the second time that the court has overturned a multi-million dollar verdict in favor of WiLAN. In 2018, a jury won a decision that ordered Apple to pay $145 million.
Source: ixbt
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