Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

According to news in the morning of May 25, Beijing time, the Deputy Secretary of Justice of the United States urged the United States Supreme Court to reject the appeals of Apple and Qualcomm. It is reported that Apple and Qualcomm lost a communications patent infringement lawsuit involving the California Institute of Technology, but refused to accept the verdict and sought an appeal all the way.

Us Deputy Attorney General Elizabeth Prelogar said that last year, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit made the right decision on the appeals of Qualcomm and Apple. The appellate court held that Apple failed to provide sufficient evidence to the United States Patent Office to prove that the Caltech patent was invalid.

Caltech did not comment on Prelogar's latest judicial opinion. Qualcomm, Apple officials and the deputy Prelogar's office could not be reached for further comment.

The California Institute of Technology, based in Pasadena, California, first filed a lawsuit in 2016 in a federal district court in Los Angeles alleging that Apple's massive smartphones, tablets and Apple watches infringed the school's data transmission patents. Qualcomm's Wi-Fi chips were also accused of infringement.

According to reports, in addition to Apple and Qualcomm, Caltech also sued Microsoft, Samsung Electronics, Dell Technology, Hewlett-Packard and other companies in separate lawsuits, accusing them of infringing the same patented technology.

In 2020, the grass-roots court ruled on the lawsuit, demanding that Apple pay $837.8 million to Caltech and Qualcomm $270 million.

Qualcomm and Apple subsequently appealed, and last year, the US Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that there was a problem in determining the amount of damages for patent infringement by Apple and Qualcomm and asked the grass-roots court to rehear, but so far, there is no clear timetable for the retrial of the case.

In the appeals court, Apple and Qualcomm said they should have the right to question the validity of Caltech's communications patents, but the court rejected their demands. The appeals court pointed out that earlier, Apple could have submitted a request and argument to the US Patent Office to re-examine the validity of the California Institute of Technology patent, but Apple did not do so.

The two companies said the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals had misread US patent laws, which only prohibit some debates during the patent review stage.

Prelogar said there was no problem for the federal appeals court to interpret the law.

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