Court Throws Out $533 Million Verdict Against Apple Over Data Storage Patent (9to5mac.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Mac: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit made a decision today to throw out the verdict of a two-year old legal case against Apple based on data storage patents. The original verdict reached by a Texas jury stuck Apple with $533 million in damages. Smartflash LLC targeted game developers who largely all settled out of court in 2014, but Apple defended its use of data storage management and payment processing technology in court. Reuters has more on the new developments: "The trial judge vacated the large damages award a few months after a Texas federal jury imposed it in February 2015, but the U.S. 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. A 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."

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Sudden outbreak of common sense

[Citizen of Earth]

The Eastern District of Texas court needs some swamp draining.

Fuck you, Texas.

[Gravis Zero]

Texas, we had no problem with your peculiar behavior, including the provocative "don't mess with Texas" line and then you started fucking over the rest the rest of us with your insane ideas on patents. So fuck you Texas and have your independence because we don't want you.

-The rest of the country.