As early as 2015, Apple was sentenced to infringement of the University of Wisconsin patent licensing department held by a patent, and then the court ruled that Apple compensation to the school 862 million US dollars.
In further rulings, the judge found that Apple is not intentional infringement, so the amount of compensation will be reduced to $ 234 million, but then the judge on this basis, an additional $ 272 million, the total amount of compensation of $ 506 million.
Today Apple said it would formally appeal the verdict, saying the verdict was 'filled with the error'.
In a brief report submitted by Apple, the company believes that the jury in the western part of Wisconsin is 'flawed' in the decision process and in many aspects of the outcome, and that there is a lack of a reasonable basis for the identification of the infringement.
Apple was sentenced to infringement of the University of Wisconsin patent called 'prediction circuit', the patent can predict the user's instructions to improve the performance of the chip.Apple was identified in the iPhone 5s, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus and several iPad models Have used patented chips, and as early as 1998, Gurindar Sohi, a professor of computer science at the University of Wisconsin and three of his students, received the patent.
During the 2015 trial, Apple denied that he had any infringement and questioned the validity of the patent, and even asked the US Patent and Trademark Office to review the validity of the patent but was rejected.