Apple owes the University of Wisconsin $506 million for using patented technology in iPhones and iPads
(LA Times Kings)

U.S. patent No. 5,781,752 may not sound special: It´s a `table based data speculation circuit for parallel processing computer.` But for the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation - the research arm of the University of Wisconsin-Madison - it´s now worth half a billion dollars. On Monday, a federal...