Apple's Component Tax | A Decade of Patent Suits Over the Technology Inside the iPhone & Apple Watch

A record $5.7bn haptics verdict is the latest in a long line of suits over the parts inside Apple's devices A $5.7bn verdict on a non-core component gives every holder of sensor, radio or interface patents a higher anchor for settlement talks. Apple has no single dispute that threatens its earnings, but it faces a steady, rising "component tax". In practice that means more licence-and-settle outcomes and more engineering spent on design-arounds, as with the Watch's blood-oxygen feature, which was moved onto the iPhone to get past the ban.

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