Apple Inc. must continue to defend against charges it copied a virtual-wallet invention patented by a Texas fintech firm after the Federal Circuit wiped out a district judge’s noninfringement ruling Friday.
The appeals court said the district court ignored evidence put forward by patent owner Fintiv Inc. that Apple’s allegedly infringing Apple Wallet software products contain a “widget” as that word is used in Fintiv’s US Patent No. 8,843,125.
Fintiv’s expert witness for the case had offered testimony “related to observed functionality in the accused products” that amounted to “circumstantial evidence of a widget,” Judge Raymond T. Chen wrote ...
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