{"id":1038954,"date":"2026-09-28T07:46:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T02:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038954"},"modified":"2026-09-28T07:50:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T02:20:53","slug":"us-jury-says-apple-owes-record-5-7-billion-in-haptic-technology-patent-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/28\/us-jury-says-apple-owes-record-5-7-billion-in-haptic-technology-patent-case\/","title":{"rendered":"US jury says Apple owes record $5.7 billion in haptic technology patent case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US jury ruled that Apple owes San Diego-based Taction more than $5.7 billion for using its patented technology to power the haptic feedback in iPhones and Apple Watches. Apple said it would appeal the country&#8217;s largest such verdict to date. <\/p>\n<p>The jury said on Friday that Apple&#8217;s Taptic Engine, which creates tapping vibrations, infringed two Taction patents <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Apple&#8217;s Taptic Engine is fundamentally different from Taction&#8217;s technology, which Taction&#8217;s own testing of Apple&#8217;s products confirmed during trial,&#8221; Apple said in response<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US jury ruled that Apple owes San Diego-based Taction more than $5.7 billion for using its patented technology to power the haptic feedback in iPhones and Apple Watches. Apple said it would appeal the country&#8217;s largest such verdict to date. The jury said on Friday that Apple&#8217;s Taptic Engine, which creates tapping vibrations, infringed two Taction patents &#8220;Apple&#8217;s Taptic Engine is fundamentally different from Taction&#8217;s technology, which Taction&#8217;s own testing of Apple&#8217;s products confirmed during trial,&#8221; Apple said in response<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038970,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038954\/revisions\/1038970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}