Apple faces second suit from patent owner

The lawsuit claims Apple uses licensed innovation in late items, for example, the iPhone 6
Apple is being sued by an organization two days after it was advised to pay the same firm $533m (£344m) for encroaching licenses.
Smartflash LLC initially sued over protected innovation utilized as a part of Apple's iTunes.
On 25 February a jury found that Apple encroached the licenses and honored harms to Smartflash.
Presently Smartflash has recorded an alternate claim based around the same licenses yet for their utilization in items Apple dispatched after the first case began.
The same innovation utilized as a part of iTunes is additionally utilized as a part of the Apple iPhone 6, 6 Plus and iPad Air 2, said Smartflash in authoritative archives supporting its claim. The archives additionally specify a few different licenses it claims and which it asserts Apple has encroached."Smartflash filed the complaint to address products that came out too far into the last proceedings to have been included," said Brad Caldwell, the lawyer representing the firm. The legal action is being taken in the same jurisdiction that awarded damages to Smartflash earlier this week.
After the ruling, Apple said it would appeal and called for more work to be done to reform the technology patent system. It has yet to comment on the filing of the latest lawsuit.
Legal action over infringements of the same patents has also been filed by Smartflash against Google, Samsung and Amazon.
Smartflash is based in the British Virgin Islands and owns and licenses tech-related patents but does not make products itself. Critics have denounced it and other firms like it as "patent trolls".
Earlier this month, firms that operate in a similar fashion to Smartflash also recorded court wins. Samsung has been ordered to pay Rembrandt IP $16m and Symantec has been told to pay Intellectual Ventures $17m