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Apple has been ordered to pay more than $300 million by the Texas court after the jury decided that the iPhone maker infringed Personalized Media Communications LLC’s patent related to digital rights management or DRM.
As per Reuters, the jurors made the decision last weekend and asked Apple to pay up royalty fees to PMC, a licensing company. The amount was said to have been determined based on the total of the product sales or service.
Apple’s response to the Texas court verdict
The Tim Cook-led company said it is very disappointed with the decision, so it is planning to submit an appeal to the tribunal. In an emailed statement, the tech company further stated, “Cases like this, brought by companies that don’t make or sell any products, stifle innovation and ultimately harm consumers.”
PMC filed a lawsuit against Apple in 2015 for alleged infringement of seven of its patents. It was stated in the filing that Apple’s iTunes service was the company's unit that violated the trademarked patents.
Apple initially won the case against PMC as the U.S. patent office sided with them. However, PMC filed an appeal in March 2020, and the decision was overturned, and this led to the current trial.
The trial on the DRM patent infringement case
Bloomberg reported that the verdict was handed down by the federal jury after a five-day trial that took place in Marshall, Texas. It was explained that Personalized Media was referring to its FairPlay as the technology that Apple allegedly infringed by using it on its iTunes, Apple Music, and App Store.
Last year, the U.S. patent office declared that PMC’s claims were not valid, but the firm insisted that there were violations and a patent infringement has been committed by Apple. It was learned that PMC also filed a bunch of lawsuits against Google, YouTube, and others but lost in the patent trials. It also has a pending case against Netflix for the same complaint.
Meanwhile, this is not the only case that Apple is facing right now. The company is set to go trial in May for its legal battle against Epic Games.
