The latest decision that was taken by the CAFC was to remand and vacate the summary judgement that the district court judge had given which was in favour of Apple. The judgement was in regards of the three IP pieces that Unwired Planet owned. The case had been sent back for another review and the appeals court had affirmed that a 4th non infringement had been found.
The recent opinion that stems out from the complaint was lodged by Unwired Planet in 2012 in Nevada. When the complaint was lodged, it was alleged by UP that the products of Apple infringed 10 patents. This included device provisioning, voice recognition systems cellular data transmission and various other related technologies. In the suit, the products of Apple that was targeted were a few first party apps, iOS, iCloud, iTunes, App Store, iPad and iPhone of Apple.
In 2013, the case was then transferred to the court in California. A summary judgment wa spushed by Apple soon after a few claims had been narrowed down. In 201 Vince Chhabria, a U.S. District Judge had ruled that there was no direct infringement done by Apple on the U.s Patent for Speech recognition on mobile devices numbered at 6,532,446, for secure data transmission with the help of a narrow band channel under US Patent No, 6,317,831 and web based provisioning of mobile devices under U.S Patent Nos 6,647,260.
Founded in 1994 under the name of Openwave Systems, Unwired Planet provided technology solutions for those who wanted to access the intent on their mobiles. Initially with the development of standard WAP products, success was seen by the company, this also included the first set of mobiles which came with internet browsers. However, there was a decline in the revenue which resulted to the fact that in 2012, the company had to sell a few of their product business.