Neither Smartflash nor Apple could be immediately reached for comment. The decision likely ends a case that had attracted wide attention when the verdict was rendered but had gone against the plaintiff ever since. The trial judge vacated the large damages award a few months after a Texas federal jury imposed it in February 2015, but the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said on Wednesday the judge should have ruled Smartflash's patents invalid and set aside the verdict entirely.Ī unanimous three-judge appeals panel said Smartflash's patents were too "abstract" and did not go far enough in describing an actual invention to warrant protection. A federal appeals court has thrown out a jury verdict that had originally required Apple Inc to pay $533 million to Smartflash LLC, a technology developer and licenser that claimed Apple's iTunes software infringed its data storage patents.
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