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Apple Hit With A $5.7 Billion Verdict For Alleged Patent Infringement

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Apple is reportedly looking to appeal the jury verdict.

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Apple is currently on the hook for a record-breaking patent infringement case, after a federal jury decided that the iPhone maker has to pay more than $5.7 billion to Taction, a San Diego-based company that produces audio and gaming peripherals with haptic feedback. If the decision holds, it would be one of the largest patent infringement case payouts in the US, topping an ongoing case involving Intel for $3 billion.

Taction filed the lawsuit back in 2021, alleging that Apple's Taptic Engine found in its various iPhone and Apple Watch models infringed on two of its patents related to haptic feedback. The lawsuit was dismissed in 2023 by a federal judge in San Diego, but later brought backinto the courts following a decision by the US ​Court ⁠of Appeals for the Federal Circuit a couple of years later. The...

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