A U.S. appeals court has upheld a judgement against Apple worth $440 million, reports Reuters. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied the iPhone-maker’s request to throw out the 2016 jury verdict, which found it guilty of infringing on patents belonging to VirnetX.
After a German court concluded that Apple is in violation of a Qualcomm hardware patent, Apple said it would pull some iPhone models from its own stores in the country.
Apple’s acknowledged that the iPhone-exclusive iOS 12.1.2 software update has indeed circumvented a pair of Qualcomm patents, despite Qualcomm’s claims to the contrary.
Qualcomm claims that the Cupertino tech giant “continues to flout the legal” by remaining in violation of a Chinese court’s orders to stop selling iPhones 6s through iPhone X.
Apple will soon release special iOS updates to its Chinese customers that were specifically created to circumvent a pair of patents, owned by Qualcomm, which are essential to an iPhone injunction that the chip maker has won recently in the 1.33 billion people country.
Apple’s health-tracking AirPods patent describes wireless earbuds that incorporate sensors capable of measuring your heart rate and body temperature.
Sound and voice could play a bigger role in Animoji as Apple seems to have come up with additional ideas to make the feature even more fun, per a recent patent application.
A new patent application published Thursday has indicated that the Cupertino technology giant might be researching sleep monitoring hardware of its own.