Just as the epic patents battle between Apple and Samsung may be drawing towards a climax in the US Supreme Court, so the iPhone maker faces another IPR dispute. A jury decided on Tuesday that Apple’s inhouse-designed A7 mobile processor infringes a patent owned by the University of Wisconsin, which could make Apple liable for up to $862m in damages. Interestingly, Intel has already settled a dispute around one of same patents involved in this case. US Patent number 5,781,752 describes a “table-based data speculation circuit for parallel processing computer” and was awarded in 1998. When the university sued Intel, the chipmaker settled before going to trial, paying a lump sum of $110m for a licence, according to a filing…