A federal jury of Delaware (USA) issued a sentence against Apple. The American company has been fined on Tuesday with 110 million dollars (93 million euros) for violating the rights of a patent related to the wireless communication technologies of the Spanish company To power control.
Tot Power Control, which is dedicated to the intellectual property license and technologies, denounced Apple by civil via in 2021, arguing that its devices included transmitters that They used two of their patents registered in the US without their permissionaccording to the demand.
After the trial, the jury has issued a verdict in which he considers Apple infringed one of the two patents. Therefore, he has decided that the company must pay royalties for a total of 110 million dollars, as recorded in the document published in the Judicial Digital Archive.
The Spanish company, directed by Álvaro López-MedranoHe argued that Apple infractions were based “on the energy control processes practiced by wireless band processors used by Apple mobile devices to access and operate cellular networks,” says the demand.
According to specialized media, Apple does not agree with the verdict and plans to appeal it. Likewise, the Spanish has also denounced LG and Samsung in that same court of Delaware for similar reasons.
In 2020, Mercantile Court of Madrid dismissed a similar demand for TOT against Vodafone Y Huawei For more than 500 million euros.
