Apple defeated in $22m wireless patent case
Cellular Communications Equipment (CCE), a subsidiary of patent licensing company Acacia, has won a patent infringement case against Apple.
The case was heard at the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas on Wednesday, September 14.
The jury unanimously voted that US patent number 8,055,820 was valid and infringed.
It also found that the ‘820 patent was wilfully infringed by Apple and returned a damages award of $22.1 million.
The ‘820 patentwas originally registered by Nokia Siemens Networks(now Nokia Networks) at the US Patent and Trademark Office in November 2011.
It covers “an apparatus, system and method for increasing buffer status reporting efficiency and adapting buffer status reporting according to uplink capacity”.
CCE has a patent portfolio which covers wireless user equipment relating to 3G, 4G and LTE-advanced wireless networks.
The portfolio originated from Nokia Siemens Networks.
In April 2014, Nokia announced that it agreed to license its patents to 60 companies on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms. It did not name the companies, but CCE claimed in its court filing that it is the assignee of the ‘820 patent.
The suit was originally filed at the Texas court in April 2014 against Apple, AT&T, Verizon, Cellco Partnership, Wireless Sprint Corporation and T-Mobile.
It argued that Apple used the ‘820 patent in its iPad 3, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5s and the iPad mini.
CCE requested a jury trial, damages and costs, and pre-judgment and post-judgment damages.
