Opinion:
Downphoenix
Correct me if I'm wrong, but why should Apple have to pay MIT? The chip manufacturer was Micron, they're the ones that infringed on the patents, and thus the party that should be sued. For being a fancy school of science and technology, someone apparently forgot logical deduction.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology filed a patent lawsuit against Apple and its suppliers this week, claiming that semiconductor wafers found in the company's computers and mobile devices infringe on a patent obtained by two academics more than 15 years ago. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Boston federal court, claims that Idaho-based Micron Technology knew about a laser-cutting method described in the patent, but used it all the same when supplying DRAM semiconductor devices for products like iPhones, iPads and MacBook Airs.