A US district judge said PMC intentionally delayed filing its application with the US Patent and Trademark Office, hoping to obtain a larger payout
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Apple persuaded a federal judge to throw out a $308.5 million (roughly Rs. 2,298 crores) jury verdict it lost to a privately-held licensing firm for infringing a patent associated with digital rights management.
In a Thursday night decision, US District Judge Rodney Gilstrap said Personalized Media Communications LLC (PMC) intentionally delayed filing its application with the US Patent and Trademark Office, hoping to obtain a larger payout.
“This court takes very seriously the prospect of disturbing the unanimous verdict of a duly empaneled jury,” but PMC’s “deliberate strategy of delay” was a “conscious and egregious misuse of the statutory patent system,” Gilstrap wrote.
