Ericsson Loses High Court Bid to Revive $75m TCL Patent Verdict

The U.S. Supreme Court rebuffed Ericsson’sbid to reinstate a $75 million verdict it won against TCL Industries Holdings over a patent for a way to improve the security of mobile phones.

• In a 2-1 ruling last year, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the nation’s top patent court, threw out the verdict after ruling the Ericsson invention wasn’t eligible for a patent because it simply covered an abstract idea
  • The patent is for a way to control what type of access is given to third parties and downloaded apps
• Ericsson’s Supreme Court petition focused on the procedural ...