{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_j6eeypgyeg6p6kfbj5tq","title":"Apple Loses Haptics Patent Case to Taction","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/apple-loses-haptics-patent-case-to-taction-j6eeypgyeg","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_j6eeypgyeg6p6kfbj5tq","seq":761311,"kind":"article","title":"Apple Loses Haptics Patent Case to Taction","url":"https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/09/29/apple-loses-haptics-patent-case-to-taction","summary":"Blake Brittain (PDF, patent 1, patent 2, Hacker News, 9To5Mac): A US jury ruled that Apple owes San Diego-based Taction more than $5.7 billion for using its patented technology to power the haptic feedback in iPhones and Apple Watches. Apple said it would appeal the country’s largest such verdict to date. […] Apple denied the […]","published":"2026-09-29T18:39:01Z","seen":"2026-09-29T20:25:55Z","lang":"en","source":{"id":"kite-mjtsai-com-b6c726","name":"mjtsai.com","domain":"mjtsai.com","outlet":{"wikidata":"Q79266735","name":"Michael Tsai","type":"other","designations":["human"]}},"via":"kite-mjtsai-com-b6c726","topics":["apple","technology","haptics","ios","iphone","lawsuit","legal","patents"],"authors":["Michael Tsai"],"entities":[{"id":"Q89","name":"apple","type":"org"},{"id":"Q21108053","name":"sensory perception of touch","type":"org"}],"story":"st_j6eeypgyeg6p6kfbj5tq","category":"science-technology","category_p":0.6200000047683716,"sentiment":"neutral","tone":-0.3400000035762787,"political":0.05000000074505806}]}