Apple threatens to leave the UK over ‘commercially unacceptable` patent fee
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What you need to know An Apple lawyer says the company could pull out of the UK if it is forced to pay a `commercially unacceptable` fee to a patent troll. Apple could be told to hand over a $7billion (£5billion) as part of the legal row. As unlikely as that seems, it`s quite the threat. Apple could leave the UK market if it is forced to hand over $7billion (£5billion) to a patent troll, a company lawyer has claimed. The lawyer called the fee `commercially unacceptable` and comes amid the news that Apple could be fined over its use of Optis Cellular Technology patents. Optis says that Apple used its patents relating to 3G and 4G technologies used in iPhones, something a High Court judge ruled was indeed the case in the case of two of the company`s patents. But according to a This Is Money report, the prospect of having to hand over as much as $7 billion has Apple ready to pull out of the UK altogether. Or, at least, that`s what one of its lawyers seems to think. American ...