Following the launch of the first iPhone, Apple launched the machinery of legal to prevent any company to make use of the different patents that had been previously trying to launch devices that could stand up to the iPhone. The company encountered hard Samsung in various trials, many of which won forcing the rival company to pay a large amount of millions of dollars in compensation. But it seems that in recent years that has changed completely, because it is Apple who keeps on receiving complaints for the use of previously registered patents without having gone through the box.
Leaving aside the Patent Trolls, companies dedicated to report calling for the disappearance of some of the best-known features of Apple as FaceTime or iMessage, allegations that they have forced the company to pay more than $ 500 million to this type of companies, who have never had in mind market patents that have in their possession.
But on this occasion who has denounced the company is the California Institute of technology, better known as Caltech. According to MacRumors, Caltech registered several patents between 2006 and 2012 related ANGER/LDPC codes. These codes improve performance and data transmission rates in general. This same technology is currently implemented within the standards Wi-Fi 802. 11n and 802. 11ac which are used by many of the company’s products with headquarters in Cupertino.
The complaint against Apple was presented in the Court of the District of United States in California. According to Caltech Apple products, including the iPhone, iPad and Mac used encoders and decoders IRA / LDPC infringed four patents previously registered by the California Institute of technology in this way.
