{"id":753,"date":"2025-05-01T14:06:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T14:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/?p=753"},"modified":"2025-07-03T10:15:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T10:15:46","slug":"apple-ordered-to-pay-patent-troll-optis-502m-despite-threat-to-leave-uk-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/apple-ordered-to-pay-patent-troll-optis-502m-despite-threat-to-leave-uk-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple ordered to pay patent troll Optis $502M, despite threat to leave UK market"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Apple-ordered-to-pay-patent-troll-Optis-502M-despite-threat-to-leave-UK-market.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1600\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/aapl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple<\/a> has been ordered to pay Optis $502M for the use of standards-essential 4G <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/patents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">patents<\/a> in both iPhones and cellular iPads. Interest also has to be paid, bringing the total due to over $700M.<\/p>\n<p>The court ruled in favor of the patent troll, despite an unconvincing attempt by Apple\u2019s lawyer to claim that the company might withdraw the iPhone from sale in the UK if it was forced to pay \u2026 <\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"aapl,ipad,iphone,patents\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"999492\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/05\/01\/apple-ordered-to-pay-patent-troll-optis-502m-despite-threat-to-leave-uk-market\/#more-999492\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has been ordered to pay Optis $502M for the use of standards-essential 4G patents in both iPhones and cellular iPads. Interest also has to <a href=\"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/apple-ordered-to-pay-patent-troll-optis-502m-despite-threat-to-leave-uk-market\/\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}