Apple Might Leave the UK market, Claims Its Lawyer in Patent Troll Case
12th July 2021
Apple might leave the UK market if it is forced to pay too much money to a patent troll, after losing a case last month, says the company’s lawyer. The case relates to a claim by Optis Wireless, which initially won a $506M award against Apple in the US, before the judgment was overturned on appeal.
Optis – which bought some standards-essential LTE patents in order to make claims like this – then won a separate case against Apple in the UK, this time claiming billions rather than millions …
A poster child for the potential damage that can be done under the current ‘intellectual property’ government-enforced monopoly