High Court Rejects Case Over Apple’s Role in Patent Challenge

The US Supreme Court declined to take up a legal challenge that could have revived a $503 million jury verdict against Apple Inc.

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in March 2023 ruled that a pair of VirnetX Inc. patents were invalid because they were anticipated by a 1996 network security article. VirnetX had previously won an East Texas jury verdict for Apple’s alleged infringement of the patents through its FaceTime and VPN on Demand products.

VirnetX argued in its petition for high court review that Apple shouldn’t have been allowed to join the administrative proceedings targeting ...