Apple Inc. had a busy day at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Monday. One Federal Circuit panel issued a decision reviving a patent infringement lawsuit against the company in the Northern District of California, while another heard oral arguments in the appeal of a whopping $368 million jury verdict that Apple lost to VirnetX Inc. in the Eastern District of Texas in 2012.
In the California case, a unanimous Federal Circuit panel breathed new life into a case brought against Apple by Ancora Technologies Inc., which holds a patent for a method of preventing software from running without a license. Ancora had consented to a judgment of noninfringement after U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland construed the term “program” in a way that didn’t include Apple’s iOS operating system, the alleged infringing product.
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