Apple, Intel file antitrust case against SoftBank-owned firm over patent practices

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Apple, Intel file antitrust case against SoftBank-backed firm over patent practices

) unit stockpiled patents to hold up tech firms with lawsuits demanding as much as $5.1 billion.

Intel and Apple allege that Fortress and firms it either owned or whose patent portfolios it effectively controlled - and which do no make any technology products - stockpiled patents for the primary purpose of suing technology companies and did so in a manner that violated U.S. antitrust laws. Fortress and Japanese parent SoftBank did not immediately respond to a request for comment. When Intel filed the similar lawsuit in October, a Fortress spokesman told Reuters the company was “confident in our business practices and our legal position and view this lawsuit as meritless”.

Two Fortress-connected firms, Uniloc USA and Uniloc Luxembourg, “have disclosed that they believe they are entitled to damages of between $1.41 and $2.75 per Apple product, for total damages in the range of $375 to $732 million,” Apple wrote in its complaint.

 

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