[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-jury-hits-apple-with-57-billion-patent-verdict":10,"sections":52},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":38,"tags":39,"sources":44,"feedback":51,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":51,"total_tokens":51},7988,"jury-hits-apple-with-57-billion-patent-verdict","Jury Hits Apple With $5.7 Billion Patent Verdict","A federal jury ordered Apple to pay $5.7 billion in a patent infringement case, and the company says it will appeal.","Apple owes $5.7 billion after a jury found it liable for patent infringement.\n\nA jury ordered Apple to pay $5.7 billion in damages in a patent infringement case. The verdict, reported this week, ranks among the largest patent awards ever levied against a major tech company. Apple has said it plans to appeal. An appeal all but guarantees the case will drag on for years before any money changes hands, if it ever does.\n\nThe plaintiff and the specific patent at issue haven't been named in what's public so far, so it's hard to say whether the ruling touches a flagship product or something more peripheral to Apple's business. What's clear is the scale of the number: $5.7 billion is a staggering jury award by any measure, and it puts Apple in a small club of tech giants hit with nine-figure-plus patent verdicts.\n\nBig verdicts like this rarely survive intact. 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