Apple was ordered to pay $308,5 million after a jury found it infringed on a digital rights management patent, a lawsuit originally filed in 2015 by Personalized Media Communications finally came to an end after a federal jury in Texas found that the company had infringed a technology patent related to digital rights management.
PMC sued Apple over its FairPlay technology, which it uses to distribute encrypted content from iTunes, Apple Music and its App Store. PMC, which is a patent licensing company, originally sued Apple in 2015, alleging that the tech giant had infringed on seven of its patents.
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Apple successfully challenged the case to the Patent and Appeals Court, but an appeals court reversed the patent board's decision last March, and the case went to trial and Apple was ordered to pay $308,5 million later. that the jury concluded that she infringed a digital rights management patent. Apple told Bloomberg it would appeal the decision and in a statement noted that "cases like this, brought by companies that don't make or sell any products, stifle innovation and end up harming consumers."
It's worth remembering that Personalized Media Communications, based in Sugarland, Texas, also has infringement lawsuits pending against Netflix, Google and Amazon. I think we can see a pattern here. A company like Apple well mentioned, does not manufacture or sell anything, charges patents purely and simply for owning them.
I emphasize that I don't see this as a dishonest way to make money, since years ago, for example, Google bought Motorola exactly to have access to the patents that the brand held and many other companies do the same.
