Apple Inc has successfully reversed a patent infringement damages award against it, as known on September 28. Apple persuaded a federal appeals court to oust a $234 million damages award in favor of the University of Wisconsin's patent licensing wing for infringement of the school's patent on computer processing technology. In 2015, Apple faced charges of infringement on University of Wisconsin-Madison patents with some iPhone processors and was ordered to pay the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation or WARF (which handles the university's patent licensing) $234 million. Moreover, about $213 million of the verdict had been based on a discovery that Apple was vicariously liable for Apple-branded products manufactured by Samsung Electronics Co. WARF, who had sued Apple in 2014, contended that processors in Apple's iPhone 5s, 6, and 6 Plus had infringed a patent outlining means to improve processor performance through the prediction of instructions determined by uses of the devices.