Apple, WiLAN sign patent licensing agreement settling disputes

Quarterhill

22/03/2022 11:02

March 22 (Reuters) - WiLAN Inc said on Tuesday it had signed
a patent license agreement with Apple Inc  AAPL.O  and settled
all pending litigations, weeks after the iPhone maker won a
patent dispute over wireless technology with the company.
    In February, Apple convinced a U.S. appeals court to dismiss
a jury's $85 million award to Canadian patent-licensing company
WiLAN following a 2020 retrial. Apple had asked the Federal
Circuit to throw out the award on several grounds, including
problems with WiLAN expert's testimony. (https://reut.rs/3qprous)
    Apple sued Quarterhill Inc's  QTRH.TO  WiLAN in 2014 and
sought a ruling that it did not infringe patents related to
allocating bandwidth in a wireless network. WiLAN claimed that
iPhone 5 and 6 models infringed its patents by using the LTE
wireless standard.
    WiLAN's primary business is acquiring ownership of
intellectual property and then charging fees to companies that
make use of it.
    The latest agreement includes settlement and dismissal of
all disputes between WiLAN, its subsidiary Polaris and Apple in
the United States, Canada and Germany. Terms of the agreement
were, however, not disclosed.
    
    

 (Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini
Ganguli)
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