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Apple Infringement of Ringtone Silent Patent $3 million

Release time:

2016-09-23 15:58

According to Nanjing Hua Xun US patent report, on Wednesday, local time, a jury ruled that Apple had infringed the patent company's MobileMedia ring tone mute patent and must compensate the latter for 3 million US dollars in economic losses.

MobileMedia sued Apple in 2010 for infringing 14 of its patents, and in 2012 the court ruled that Apple infringed three of MobileMedia's patents. Since then, the two companies have experienced multiple rounds of tug-of-war. The $3 million award is well below the $18 million claimed by the MobileMedia.

The focus of the six-year patent war between Apple and MobileMedia is Patent RE39231. The patent was granted in 1999 and the original holder was Sony. MobileMedia majority shareholder is video coding technology licensing organization MPEG-LA, Sony and Nokia also hold part of the shares.

MobileMedia holds more than 300 patents related to various consumer electronic products. In 2010, it announced that it would license patents related to "smart phones, mobile phones, and other portable devices including PC, notebook, media player, e-reader, camera, game console.

Apple and MobileMedia were not available for comment. Nanjing Huaxun expects Apple to appeal the ruling.