{"id":6431,"date":"2015-10-17T05:57:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T05:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/?p=6431"},"modified":"2015-10-17T05:57:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T05:57:57","slug":"warf-wins-patent-infringement-lawsuit-against-apple-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/warf-wins-patent-infringement-lawsuit-against-apple-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"WARF Wins Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Apple Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"

MADISON, Wis. \u2013 After a jury trial in federal court, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) won a jury verdict against Apple Inc. The jury found that Apple infringed a WARF owned patent (U.S. Patent No. 5,781,752 (the \u2018752 patent)) claiming an invention that significantly improves the efficiency and speed of computer processing.\u00a0\u00a0 At the end of the two-week trial, after the jury concluded Apple\u2019s A7, A8 and A8X system on chip designs infringed the asserted claims of the \u2018752 patent, it awarded WARF damages of $234 million dollars.<\/span><\/p>\n

WARF filed the patent infringement suit against Apple Inc. in 2014 in federal court in the Western District of Wisconsin.\u00a0 WARF\u2019s claim was that Apple Inc. had used the technology to speed computer processing by allowing the efficient out-of-order execution of computer instructions with a data speculation circuit that WARF itself had patented several years earlier. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued the patent to WARF in 1998 on behalf of UW-Madison Computer Science Professor Gurindar Sohi and three graduate students – Andreas Moshovos, Scott Breach, Terani Vijaykumar.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a case where the hard work of our university researchers and the integrity of patenting and licensing discoveries has prevailed,\u201d said Carl Gulbrandsen, managing director of WARF.\u00a0 \u201cThe jury recognized the seminal computer processing work that took place on our campus.\u00a0 This decision is great news for the inventors, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and for WARF.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

“The University of Wisconsin has a long history of creative innovation across many fields,\u201d says Michael Falk, WARF General Counsel.\u00a0 \u201cWARF invests in patenting UW inventions for the benefit of the UW and the public.\u00a0 It is a serious matter for us to undertake litigation to protect the UW’s patented inventions. It is important to faculty and to the UW that patented, innovative technologies developed on campus are protected from unauthorized use.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In the two-phased trial, the federal jury first found that Apple Inc. did, in fact, infringe the asserted claims of WARF\u2019s \u2018752 patent.\u00a0 They also found the asserted claims to be valid.\u00a0 The issues of infringement and validity took the jury six hours to deliberate in WARF\u2019s favor.\u00a0 \u201cThe jury did an incredible job grappling with the complex technology, and we’re grateful for their effort and ultimately for the well-deserved respect that this groundbreaking work by faculty and graduate students at the University of Wisconsin Madison received,\u201d commented Falk.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe believed our technology was ahead of its time,\u201d said Professor Gurindar Sohi, UW researcher.\u00a0 \u201cAlmost two decades ago we tried to anticipate how computers would need to operate today.\u00a0 Our team invested the equivalent of more than 11 years of work to solve this problem.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In the second phase of the trial, the jury awarded WARF $234 million dollars in damages.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some of the Apple products that benefited from the WARF patented technology include Apple\u2019s A7, A8 and A8X processors which are found in the iPhone 5s, 6 and 6 Plus, as well as several versions of the iPad.\u00a0 Apple first introduced the iPhone in 2007 and the iPad in 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFor 90 years, WARF has helped UW faculty take intellectual property, patent it and reinvest the licensing fees from those patents back into research and education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,\u201d said Gulbrandsen.\u00a0 \u201cAlthough patent verdicts like this one are typically appealed, we hope to continue to work with Apple to resolve this matter and build a stronger relationship between our two institutions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

About WARF<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

WARF is the nonprofit foundation that serves as the technology transfer arm of the University of Wisconsin-Madison by patenting and commercializing campus inventions.\u00a0 Established in 1925 and celebrating its 90th<\/sup> anniversary, WARF manages more than 1,600 licensing agreements and an endowment of $2.6 billion.\u00a0 WARF invests in the University of Wisconsin-Madison by advancing groundbreaking research and graduate education through regular financial, intellectual and legal support to UW-Madison researchers. For more information about WARF, visit warf.org<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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