In February, Apple convinced a US appeals
court to dismiss a jury's $85 million (roughly Rs. 650 crore) award to Canadian
patent-licensing company WiLAN following a 2020 retrial. Apple had asked the
Federal Circuit to throw out the award on several grounds, including problems
with WiLAN expert's testimony.
Apple sued Quarterhill's WiLAN in 2014 and
sought a ruling that it did not infringe patents related to allocating
bandwidth in a wireless network. WiLAN claimed that iPhone 5 and 6 models
infringed its patents by using the LTE wireless standard.
WiLAN's primary business is acquiring ownership
of intellectual property and then charging fees to companies that make use of
it.
The latest agreement includes settlement
and dismissal of all disputes between WiLAN, its subsidiary Polaris and Apple
in the United States, Canada and Germany. Terms of the agreement were, however,
not disclosed. © Reuters