What’s more troublesome for Apple is that it has also been sued by an American school in the past.
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The California Institute of Technology (Caltech from here on out) has filed a lawsuit against both Apple and Broadcom claiming the two companies are using wireless technologies that infringe on various patents in its portfolio. In the formal complaint, CALTECH has accused Apple of selling various products which include iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch models, along with other Wi-Fi products, that incorporate these CALTECH’s IRA/LDPC encoders and/or decoders and infringe the Asserted Patents.
Filed Thursday in the Central District of California, the complaint claimed that the companies are wrongfully using intellectual property protected by four US patents awarded to Caltech between 2006 and 2012.
This is not the first time Apple has been in hot water over patent infringement case. Apple has used Broadcom technologies in its products for the past four years. Apple has also been included in the case as it is arguably Broadcomm’s biggest customer, providing around 14 percent of their annual revenue. Since then several new generations of iPhone have launched, as well as the iPad mini, iPad Pro, Apple Watch and a range of MacBook laptops, all of which are mentioned in the official court filing. The lawsuit is largely directed at Broadcomm, the company that makes the WiFi chips used in the iPhone, MacBook, and other Apple offerings.
After the tussle with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) past year, new reports have emerged suggesting that the company has again been sued over the iPhone’s Wi-Fi technology.
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The university is seeking a permanent ban on sales of certain Apple products in the US.
