{"id":326876,"date":"2015-02-25T12:06:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T18:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=326876"},"modified":"2015-02-26T12:06:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T18:06:13","slug":"federal-jury-orders-apple-to-pay-532-9m-in-patent-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=326876","title":{"rendered":"Federal Jury Orders Apple to Pay $532.9M in Patent Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/02\/Apple-Computer-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/02\/Apple-Computer-logo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Apple Computer logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-326976\" \/><\/a>UNDATED (AP) \u2014 A federal jury says Apple should pay nearly $533 million to resolve claims that the payment system tied to its iTunes product infringes on patents issued to a business named Smartflash. Smartflash said in a 2013 complaint that the patents cover a portable data carrier for storing data and managing access to it through payment information rules. Apple Inc. says it plans to appeal the decision and that Smartflash was &#8220;exploiting our patent system to seek royalties for technology Apple invented.&#8221; The litigation was filed in the Tyler, Texas, division of the U.S. District of Court, Eastern District of Texas. In 2011, a federal judge reversed another jury verdict against Apple from a Tyler patent trial in which the software company Mirror World was awarded $625.5 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNDATED (AP) \u2014 A federal jury says Apple should pay nearly $533 million to resolve claims that the payment system tied to its iTunes product infringes on patents issued to a business named Smartflash. Smartflash said in a 2013 complaint that the patents cover a portable data carrier for storing data and managing access to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=326876\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Federal Jury Orders Apple to Pay $532.9M in Patent Dispute<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-14 16:07:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326876"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326977,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326876\/revisions\/326977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}