Apple Shells Out $25 Million to Settle Siri Lawsuit
 

http://cdn.macrumors.com/article-new...ri-250x213.jpgApple today settled a long-running lawsuit with Dynamic Advances and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute over accusations Apple's Siri voice-based personal assistant violated a 2007 patent owned by Rensselaer and licensed exclusively to Dallas company Dynamic Advances, reports the Albany Business Review.

Apple will pay a total of $24.9 million to Dynamic Advances' parent company Marathon Patent Group. $5 million will be paid after the lawsuit is dropped with the rest of the money to follow later. Apple will be granted a patent license to use the tech**logy and under the terms of the settlement, will **t be sued again for a three-year period.

Dynamic Advances will pay approximately 50 percent of the money received from Apple to Rensselaer, but Rensselaer has **t agreed to the royalty rate proposed in the settlement.

Dynamic Advances expects to pay 50 percent of that money to Rensselaer, legal counsel and the predecessor exclusive licensee of the patents in suit, according to regulatory filings.

Rensselaer has **t, however, agreed to the royalty rate proposed in the settlement, according to a document filed by Marathon Patent Group

Had the case **t been settled out of court, it would have gone to trial next month. The lawsuit dates back to 2012 and covers U.S. patent **. 7177798 B2, "Natural language interface using constrained intermediate dictionary of results."

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