After failing to invalidate patents in a patent infringement lawsuit targeting Apple Pay, Apple is trying convince the court that it isn’t infringing on the patents in question with Universal Secure Registry (USR), reports AppleInsider.
Universal Secure Registry (USR), a small US company, sued Apple and Visa in May 2017 for patent infringement. USR said it sent Apple a series of letters in 2010 describing its patented technology and seeking a partnership long before Apple Pay’s debut. Kenneth P. Weiss, chief executive of USR, also pursued a partnership with Visa around the same time, engaging “in a series of confidential discussions with senior representatives,” according to the filing. Both Apple and Visa shunned USR’s offers in favor of a partnership with each other to incorporate the technology into Apple Pay, according to Mobile Payment World.
According to the complaint, when Apple publicly announced its Apple Pay service in September 2014, the company “touted the same benefits that USR had introduced to Apple and Visa in 2010.”
Now, in a “prayer for relief,” Apple wants a declaration that it has not and doesn’t infringe on any of the three patents, notes AppleInsider. There is also the suggestion that Apple could be awarded “reasonable attorneys’ fees, expenses, and costs” if the case is deemed “exceptional,” along with any other remedy or relief deemed by the court to be “just, proper, and equitable.”
