November 18, 2021
Apple Inc. can't escape a patent infringement case brought by a University of Michigan engineering professor, the Federal Circuit said, upholding a split panel's decision based on the suit's arguments of who owns the rights to a patent filed when the professor was on unpaid leave.
August 02, 2021
Apple must face a lawsuit over its Apple Watch brought by a University of Michigan engineering professor who claims that he had the right to assign the patents to his company while on unpaid leave from the university, a split Federal Circuit ruled in a precedential opinion Monday.