Apple has been ordered to pay $ 308.5 million to Personalized Media Communications after infringing a digital rights management (DRM) patent. Bloomberg. A federal jury in Marshall, Texas, ruled Friday that the company is infringing PMC’s patent on a five-day trial.
Personal media has sued, claiming that Apple has infringed on its technology, including FairPlay, which is used to distribute encrypted content from iTunes, App Store and Apple Music applications.
It all started in 2015. PMC sued Apple for allegedly infringing seven of its patents. Apple company successfully disputed the Personalized Media Communications case at the U.S. Patent Office, but PMC appealed to the court last year and overturned the board’s decision that certain patent claims were invalid.
On Bloomberg, Apple said it was “disappointed with the verdict and that it was appealing.” Google and YouTube recently won a patent lawsuit by PMC and the case against Netflix is pending in New York.
PMC is a non-practicing entity, which means that the company only applies for patents, but does not use them. Personal media communications have dozens of patents and generate revenue through patent litigation.
This is not the first and will certainly not be the last case Apple encounters. On Friday, the founder of Epic Games hit the company to promote PUBG Mobile in the App Store. Their trial is on May.
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