Jury awards Optis US$300m in second patent trial against Apple

[SAN FRANCISCO] A US jury on Friday awarded Optis Wireless Technology and several related companies US$300 million in damages after a second patent trial against iPhone maker Apple Inc.

A jury had previously found that Apple had infringed five Optis wireless standard essential patents and awarded US$506 million in damages, but US District Judge Rodney Gilstrap in Marshall, Texas, vacated that award in April and ordered a new trial to determine the amount of damages.

In a statement, Apple said: "Optis makes no products and its sole business is to sue companies using patents they accumulate.

We will continue to defend against their attempts to extract unreasonable payments for patents they acquire."

REUTERS