Apple tells a judge Taction's $5.7 billion award for the Taptic Engine rests on guesswork
Apple asked a federal judge to overturn the $5.7 billion Taction verdict, saying Taction gave jurors no evidence of what its patents are worth. The verdict is not yet a final judgment, and the court has yet to decide whether it stands.
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Dutch injunction on Keytruda SC could fall to one invalidity ruling, Hana Securities says
A Dutch court barred the manufacture, sale and import of Keytruda SC in eight European countries on Oct. 8, citing Halozyme's EP622 patent. Hana Securities says the order is not a final judgment on validity and could be overturned.
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Judge James Selna added $184 million in interest to Apple's $634 million Masimo patent verdict, putting the bill near $818 million. Set at Masimo's borrowing rate, it charges Apple for paying a royalty late and leaves today's watches alone.
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Taction Technology won a $5.7 billion jury verdict against Apple over the Taptic Engine, the haptic part in Apple Watch since 2014. The jury found no willful infringement, so judging patent risk by whether anyone copied is the wrong test for hardware teams.
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San Diego jurors ordered Apple to pay Taction Technology $5.7 billion over the Taptic Engine, the largest U.S. patent verdict on record. Apple has promised to appeal a sum more than twice the roughly $2.5 billion that courts threw out across four earlier verdicts against it.
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Seven jurors priced two Taction patents in Apple's Taptic Engine at $5.7 billion
Federal jurors ordered Apple to pay Taction Technology more than $5.7 billion over two haptic patents used in its Taptic Engine. Apple will appeal what Reuters calls the largest US verdict of its kind, so Taction holds a contested claim for now.
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