Apple accused of patent infringement, the Court ruled against the plaintiff-patent litigation-IT information
Apple has made gratifying progress in patent prosecution, because the other side to sue Apple's patent was invalid. United States Patent and Trademark Office after a series of assessments, identified Smartflash LLC holds two data storage, management, access to the payments system solution-related patents invalid. Prior to this, Smartflash had used both of these patents to win Apple, which received a $ 533 million tickets out of the Court.
Smartflash holds two patents is found void, mainly United States Patent and Trademark Office, saying it is an abstract concept, and not a new invention. This also means that Apple this time without compensation of us $ 533 million.
Smartflash in 2013 at the earliest to appeal against Apple, which prosecution documents accusing Apple of violating their intellectual property rights held by the iTunes platform, and demand a compensation of us $ 852 million. February 2015, the United States District Court of Texas trial judgements in the case, Apple case, needs to pay the plaintiffs $ 533 million in compensation. However, by July 2015, Texas Court withdrew after Apple to pay $ 533 million judgment, but there was no change in Apple's decision, but re-evaluate the amount of compensation.
Although the Smartflash's patent was invalid, but they still have a chance to appeal again. Moreover, they can request to move the case to a higher court for trial.
苹果被告专利侵权，法院判决原告败诉 - 专利诉讼 - IT资讯
苹果在一起专利起诉案件中获得了令人欣喜的进展，因为对方用以起诉苹果的专利被判无效了。美国专利商标局在经过一系列评估之后，认定Smartflash LLC所持有的两项与数据储存、管理访问支付系统解决方案相关的专利作废。而在此之前，Smartflash曾经利用这两项专利打赢苹果，后者收到了法院开出的5.33亿美元罚单。
Smartflash所持有的两项专利之所以被判作废，主要是美国专利商标局认为它们只是抽象的概念，并不能算是一新技术发明。这也就意味着，苹果这一次不用赔偿5.33亿美元了。
Smartflash最早在2013年对苹果提出上诉，前者在起诉文件中指责苹果的iTunes平台侵犯了他们所持有的知识产权，并要求对方赔偿金为8.52亿美元。2015年2月，美国德州地方法院对此案作出初审判决，苹果侵权属实，需要向原告支付5.33亿美元赔偿金。不过，到了2015年7月，德州法院又撤回了此前苹果需要赔偿5.33亿美元的判决，不过当时并没有改变苹果侵权的判决，而是重新评估赔偿金额。
虽然Smartflash所持有的专利被判无效，但他们仍然有再次上诉的机会。而且，他们还可以请求将案子移到更高一级的法院进行审判。