Apple wins court ruling throwing out $308.5 million patent verdict
By Jonathan Stempel
(Reuters) – Apple Inc persuaded a federal select to throw out a $308.5 million jury verdict it misplaced to a privately-held licensing company for infringing a patent associated to digital rights administration.
In a Thursday night alternative, U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap talked about Personalized Media Communications LLC (PMC) intentionally delayed submitting its utility with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, hoping to accumulate a much bigger payout.
“This court takes very severely the prospect of disturbing the unanimous verdict of a duly empaneled jury,” nonetheless PMC’s “deliberate strategy of delay” was a “acutely conscious and egregious misuse of the statutory patent system,” Gilstrap wrote.
PMC, based in Sugar Land, Texas, claimed in its 2015 lawsuit that the FairPlay software program program utilized in Apple’s iTunes service and App Store to decrypt …
