Ondrej Holzman Apple could face a new opponent in the courtroom. In his iPhone 5S, iPad mini with Retina display and iPad Air, there is an A7 processor, which allegedly violates technologies invented at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and patented in 1998.
The lawsuit against Apple was filed by the American University of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF). She claims that Apple used a patented design to improve the efficiency and performance of the processor when designing the A7 chip. Specifically in the patent no. 5,781,752 describes an anticipatory circuit that allows faster execution of (processor) instructions. The principle is based on previous instructions and wrong guesses.
Apple is allegedly using the technology without the permission of WARF, which is now demanding an unspecified amount in damages and also wants to stop the sale of all products with the A7 processor unless royalties are paid. These are standard claims for similar lawsuits, but WARF is asking for triple the damages because Apple should have been aware that it was infringing the patent.
WARF operates as an independent group and serves to enforce university patents. Not a classic "patent troll" who buys and sells patents solely for the sake of litigation, WARF deals only with inventions originating from university teams. It is not at all clear yet whether the whole case will make it to court. In similar cases, both parties often settle out of court, and the University of Wisconsin has already settled several of its disputes in this way.
I'm not kidding myself :-D let someone who has a patent for a headphone connector sue them, in fact a patent can be for anything, but the fact that someone patented the shape of the processor is too much :-D thanks, someone needs to get money out of all kinds of nonsense but this is already extra :-D
The design of the processor is not the shape, but the design of the internal structure of the circuits :)
… What one deals with, that is also lost … How apt our proverbs are. I like APPLE, but if the patent has been violated and it applies with everything - that is without discussion!