Amaya Toman Patent lawsuits from various parties are certainly not unusual in Apple's history. Today we will remember the case when Apple failed in court and had to pay a considerable sum of money to the plaintiff. We also remember the day Tim Berners-Lee rebuilt his first web browser, which at the time was still called the World Wide Web.
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First browser and WYSIWYG editor (1991)
On February 25, 1991, Sir Tim Berners Lee introduced the first web browser that was also a WYSIWYG HTML editor. The aforementioned browser was initially called WorldWideWeb, but was later renamed to Nexus. Berners-Lee ran everything on the NeXTSTEP platform, and worked not only with the FTP protocol, but also with HTTP. Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web during his time at CERN, and in 1990 he launched the world's first web server (info.cern.ch).
Apple loses patent case (2015)
On February 25, 2005, a Texas court ruled against Apple, imposing a fine of $532,9 million. It was a punitive damages award to Smartflash LLC, which sued Apple for infringing three patents in the iTunes software. The company Smartflash did not slack off in its demands against Apple in any case - it initially demanded compensation in the amount of 852 million dollars. Among other things, the court also said in this case that Apple was using Smartflash LLC's patents quite knowingly. Apple defended itself by arguing that Smartflash does not make any products, and accused it of simply trying to make money off its patents. The lawsuit was filed against Apple already in the spring of 2013 - it stated, among other things, that the software of the iTunes service violates the patents of Smartflash LLC, related to the access and storage of downloaded content. Apple sought to have the lawsuit dismissed, but was unsuccessful.
