Apple and Broadcom have joined hands and are trying to overturn the results of their legal battles with Caltech over its WiFi patent trials from back in January 2020. The companies are asking courts to overturn the decision, which has fined both companies over 1.1 billion US Dollars in fines.
A new filing made by the Cupertino based giant and Broadcom earlier this week, has urged the court to overturn the results of the Caltech WiFi patent trials. As per an AppleInsider report, the brief suggests that the original trial was conducted with “”multiple legal errors.” Back in January 2020, the patent trial ruling had found both Apple and Broadcom guilty of infringing on patents owned by the California Institute of Technology for WiFi. Notably, Apple tried to invalidate the patent back in March, but ultimately failed.
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For those unaware, Caltech’s lawyers even argued that a hypothetical licensing deal in 2010 for the chips used in iPhones, iPads, Macs, Apple Watches, and more would have brought in some 1.4 US Dollars per device from Apple and 26 cents each from Broadcom during the trial. When calculated, this figure translates to the jury applying an 838 million US Dollars fine on Apple and 270 million US Dollars on Broadcom.
In the appeal, both companies stated that “These rulings unfairly prejudiced appellants, and greatly hampered their ability to rebut Caltech’s repeated emphasis at trial on the supposed importance of the patents-in-suit, which led to an enormous — and unwarranted — damages award.” Caltech has called both firms conduct as “truly egregious” and even asked the court to raise the payment up to 2.2 billion US Dollars, after taking the lawyers and damages into account.
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