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Apple agrees to pay $24.9M to settle Siri patent lawsuit, but it may not end there

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<p>Apple has agreed to pay $24.9M to settle a long-running lawsuit alleging that <a href="http://9to5mac.com/tag/siri/" target="_blank">Siri[/url] violated a <a href="http://www.google.com/patents/US7177798" target="_blank">patent[/url] owned by a New York institute and exclusively licensed to a company in Dallas. The patent predates the launch of Siri by four years.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/news/2016/04/19/apple-settles-siri-lawsuit-with-rensselaer-dallas.html?page=all" target="_blank">Albany Business Review[/url] notes that Apple was sued not by the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, which holds the patent, but by Dallas-based Dynamic Advances, which licensed it. The company reportedly receives $5M now, and the balance after meeting unspecified conditions. In return, Apple gets a license to use the patented technology for three years.</p>
<p>The settlement means that the patent trial, due to take place in New York next month, will no longer proceed. However, that may not be the end of it …</p>
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