High Court Rebuffs $1.1 Billion Apple, Caltech Case Over Patents

The US Supreme Court shot down Apple Inc. and Broadcom Inc.'s appeal claiming they were wrongly blocked from making certain arguments about the validity of several California Institute of Technology patents.

The high court rejected the big tech companies’ petition for review Monday without explaining its reasoning.

In doing so, the justices sidestepped a question regarding whether parties in district court litigation are prevented from raising “any ground that reasonably could have been raised” in an administrative challenge at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, even if those arguments weren’t actually used or brought up later.

The US Department of ...