(Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Monday ordered Apple Inc to pay $506 million for infringing on a patent owned by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s patent licensing arm, more than doubling the damages initially imposed on Apple by a jury.U.S. District Judge William Conley in Madison added $272 million to a $234 million jury verdict the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation won against Apple in October 2015. Conley said WARF is owed additional damages plus interest because Apple continued to infringe the patent, whoch relates to computer processor technology, until it expired in December 2016.Apple is appealing Conley’s ruling, according to court papers. An Apple spokesman did not immediately return a request for comment.
Källa: Apple ordered to pay $506 million to university in patent dispute
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