SiliconBeat

Opti, a former maker of semiconductors that now makes its living licensing its intellectual property, said in a press release Friday that the jury from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas ruled in its favor in the patent infringement trial between it and Apple related to its patent entitled “Predictive Snooping of Cache Memory for Master-Initiated Accesses.”

Opti’s release says the jury ruled that Apple “wilfully infringed” the patent and rejected Apple’s defense that Opti’s patent was invalid “due to obviousness” and Apple’s claim that the patent was too similar to an earlier invention to be novel.

The jury awarded Opti $19 million in damages.