Apple pays $25M to a university, and the patent troll it cut a deal with

Apple has agreed to pay $24.9 million to a “patent troll” to end a lawsuit over its Siri voice system, according to documents filed yesterday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Publicly traded Marathon Patent Group, whose business is focused on patent licensing and lawsuits, will split the settlement cash with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), the New York technical university that provided the patents.