Apple must pay Optis $700m-the biggest patent award in UK history

Arnold LJ and Birss LJ deliver highest value court-determined licence of its type on record l Award covers past and future sales over a 15-year period l Apple found to have gained an unfair advantage in prior licence negotiations l Judgment ‘corrects a clearly flawed prior ruling’.

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