US jury says Apple owes record $5.7B in haptic technology patent case

The patent claims the jury found were infringed:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10659885B2/en?oq=us10659... claims 17 and 19

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10820117B2/en?oq=us10820... claim 16

Wow, that's a lot of money for a little buzz. I mean what could possibly be such sacred knowledge that a vibration could even be patentable.

You spin a unbalanced thing in a circle and it creates a vibration. Make it less unbalanced and you get a smoother vibration.

I'm interested in reading more information as it comes out, but a lot of the comments claiming it's "just vibrations" are being a bit reductionist. These devices are controlled by complex algorithms, and they take a lot of time and money to create. Why shouldn't this company enjoy the same IP protections that Apple enjoys on their work?

from the article, Taction themselves agreed Apple's tech was different :

"Apple's Taptic Engine is fundamentally different from Taction's technology, which Taction's own testing of Apple's products confirmed during trial," Apple said in response

That’s not chump change, even if it’s ~1.5% of Apple’s yearly revenue…

I wonder what it’ll be like after appeal.