Apple is used to receiving fines, especially lately. However, they are rarely Complaints by a Spanish companyas is the case that we will see today, and also, where the giant loses against this smaller, and has to pay a large sum.
Apparently, a federal jury in Delaware sentenced on Tuesday, July 1, 2025 that Apple must pay approximately 110.7 million dollars (around 93 million euros) To the Spanish company Tot Power Control, so we are not talking about little money.
Why Apple has been denounced by Tot Power Control
A jury in the United States has ruled that Apple used without permission a technology developed by the Spanish company Tot Power Control. This technology was designed to Improve energy savings in 3G networksintegrated in product chips such as iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch. What he did was more efficiently manage the relationship between signal and interference, which helped reduce battery consumption.
Apple, on the other hand, denied having used that technology without a license and questioned the validity of the patents, but the jury did not see it that way. Finally, Tot was right in one of the patents and set a compensation of $ 0.25 for each device sold, which adds about 110 million dollars.
It is curious as the jury of the country itself to which Apple belongs has gone against it, but it seems that the patent was clear, and Apple took advantage of it without permission and without paying anything, so it will now touch it.
Tot Power Control was founded by the Spanish engineer Álvaro López-Medrano and is dedicated to licenseing this type of technologies. His CEO has celebrated the verdict, since he considers that his work is being recognized, and that he does not resemble another, since it is its own. Meanwhile, Apple, as expected, has already confirmed that the decision will resort.
This Spanish company is large, we are not talking about a factory with few workers, however, 100 million euros could boost, and much, their business, so we hope that finally everything is resolved, and if Tot wins, it will be a push to continue manufacturing “inventions” that help us in our day to day, like that battery management, which we are all interested in.
It is not the first time that we see them in this conflict, since in the past he already had success cases in Spain against Vodafone and Huawei, and has also started Similar processes against LG and Samsung In the United States, so they could not end their demands here.
And you, do you consider that these types of patents are well defined, and that if Apple uses something that does not belong to it, or give themselves very easily, and they would all have the right to get it despite not being the first? Leave us a comment with your opinion about it.
