Supreme Court Won’t Join Alcatel-Lucent Fight Over Patent Ruling

The U.S. Supreme Court won’t enter a fight involving Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise over how the invalidation of four Ethernet patents affects a damages award in a parallel infringement suit.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated the federal trial court’s damages award to patent owner Chrimar Systems Inc., doing business as CMS Techologies Inc., in September 2019. The court held that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s intervening ruling invalidating the patents “must be given effect” because the court case was still pending.

CMS asked the Supreme Court to revive its suit against Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise for infringing its ...