AT&T, Nokia Escape $166M Patent Verdict on Appeal: The Brief

THE FEDERAL CIRCUIT erased a patent owner’s $166.3 million verdict against AT&T Mobility and Nokia of America today, saying a jury’s infringement finding relied on “contradictory” expert testimony, Michael Shapiro reports.

• Finesse Wireless’s infringement expert, Jonathan Wells, testified about how Nokia cell phone towers allegedly copied Finesse’s patented intermodulation technology, but US Circuit Judge Kimberly A. Moore took issue with his statements to an East Texas jury about Finesse’s patent. “There is nothing clear about Dr. Wells’ testimony,” Moore wrote in a precedential opinion. Read More
  

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