Reynolds Loses Bid for New Trial on $95 Million Vape-Patent Loss

British American Tobacco Plc’s RJ Reynolds Vapor Co. was denied a new trial on its September loss that awarded $95 million to Altria Group Inc. for its Vuse Alto e-cigarette’s infringement of three vape pod patents.

“That the jury did not agree with” Reynolds “does not mean the trial was unfair,” Judge N. Carlton Tilley Jr. wrote in an opinion issued Thursday in the US District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina.

Tilley denied Reynolds’ motion for a new trial or to reduce the damages jurors awarded to Altria Client Services LLC in their Sept. 7 verdict.

He ...