Case: Patents/JMOL (Fed. Cir.)

The Federal Circuit affirmed the decision of a federal district court in North Carolina denying R.J. Reynolds Vapor Co.'s post-trial motions for judgment as a matter of law and a new trial in Altria Client Services LLC’s action for infringement of patents that relate to electronic vapor devices. The appeals court affirmed the district court’s order denying Reynolds’s motions for JMOL of noninfringement and a new trial on infringement, rejected Reynolds’s challenge to the district court’s exclusion of its invalidity evidence, affirmed the denial of JMOL and a motion for a new trial on damages based on the per-unit royalty ...