University hits Apple for $234 million for patent infringement
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The patent – U.S. Patent No. 5,781,752 – relates to improving the speed and efficiency of computer operation by predicting data dependences between instructions and re-ordering instruction execution order so as to minimize such data dependences.
The University of Wisconsin is represented though its patent licensing arm, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF). WARF filed the patent infringement suit against Apple Inc. in 2014 in federal court in the Western District of Wisconsin. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued the patent to WARF in 1998 on behalf of UW–Madison Computer Science Professor Gurindar Sohi and three graduate students – Andreas Moshovos, Scott Breach, Terani Vijaykumar.
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US Patent 5,781,752
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