{"id":3618,"date":"2026-09-27T01:30:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T21:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/apple-hit-with-5-7-billion-in-damages-over-haptic-patents\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T01:30:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T21:30:01","slug":"apple-hit-with-5-7-billion-in-damages-over-haptic-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/apple-hit-with-5-7-billion-in-damages-over-haptic-patents\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple hit with $5.7 billion in damages over haptic patents"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Haptics tech company Taction sued Apple<\/a> in 2021, alleging it infringed two of its patents. Now a federal jury in San Diego has awarded Taction over $5.7 billion in damages. According to CNBC<\/a><\/em>, \u00ab\u00a0The lawsuit centered around U.S. Patent Nos. 10,659,885 and 10,820,117, which both involve vibration-based, tactile transducer technology that helps users feel a device responding to their input.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

Taction argued that Apple’s Taptic Engine in its Apple Watches and iPhones used technology that it had developed without a proper license, and the jury agreed. It found that Apple had infringed on two claims in one patent and one in the other. However, the j \u2026<\/p>\n

Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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