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Apple won its appeal of a patent infringement case brought against the company in 2014 by the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. A federal appellate court in Washington, D.C., threw out part of the $506 million in damages originally awarded to the university by a federal court in Madison. It’s unclear how much has been thrown out.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation sued Apple in 2014, claiming that the processors in some Apple devices infringed on a patent obtained by a university professor and his students. In October 2015, a jury ruled in favor of the foundation and awarded the university $234 million in damages. A federal judge ruled in 2017 that Apple continued to infringe on the patent even after the verdict was handed down until the patent expired in 2016. He added $272 million in supplemental damages to the jury's original verdict.
