London, UK - British inventor Patrick Racz has announced a racketeering investigation against tech giant Apple, following years of legal battles over patent infringement. Racz is the inventor of Smartflash, a revolutionary content provisioning technology that has become the backbone of modern-day app stores and iTunes.

In 2001, key technology development partner Gemplus, with close ties to Steve Jobs and Apple, disclosed details of Smartflash and plagiarised Racz's intellectual property, attempting to claim the technology as their own. Their actions resulted in the collapse of Smartflash, and Racz was left fighting some of the world's biggest companies for infringement of his patents.

In 2015, Racz won a resounding victory against Apple in court, with an initial jury award of $533 million for wilful infringement. The key merits and findings of the case, namely that Apple infringed on the technology and induced others to infringe, remain undisturbed today.

From 2015 to 2018, Racz was then forced to defend a series of costly appeals in separate forums, including 48 individual cases at the Patent Trial Appeal Board (PTAB), where the panels of judges were intentionally stacked with ex-lawyers and close supporters of Apple and their co-defendants and where the lawyer judges were astonishingly incentivised by the award of bonuses for outcomes that favoured Apple.

Racz maintains that his patents in suit were unlawfully invalidated by these stacked panels of judges, which intentionally included lawyers who had previously acted for Apple, and through the misapplication of a set of impermissible judicial exceptions.

Following a multi-year investigation to gather evidence of potential racketeering activity, Racz has now announced his intention to hold Apple accountable.

"I have been fighting this gross miscarriage of justice and Apple’s abusive behaviour for many years now and will not stop until the matter is brought to a just conclusion." said Racz.

NOTES TO EDITORS

For more information or to request an interview contact smartflash@borkowski.co.uk or call Josh Moreton on 07828133445

For more information about the campaign, visit his website at (www.patrickracz.com)

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