United States Federal Circuit

In a patent infringement suit against Apple, Inc., involving three patents that are generally directed to searching, displaying, and archiving computer files, district court's entry of a judgment as a matter of law in favor of Apple following a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff and an award of $208.5 million in damages, is affirmed where: 1) plaintiff's infringement theory for all of the asserted claims of the disputed patents must fail because plaintiff did not provide substantial evidence to show that the accused products have an equivalent for the "cursor or pointer" limitations; and 2) plaintiff failed to introduce substantial evidence to show that defendant itself directly infringed or induced its customers to infringe the disputed patent's method claims.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/04/2012
• Published 09/04/2012

Judges

• Lourie

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel