Google Inc. lost its bid to escape an $85 million patent infringement verdict in favor of SimpleAir Inc. this week, when an East Texas federal judge rejected the search giant’s attacks on the credibility of SimpleAir’s damages expert.
U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap on Wednesday denied an attempt by Google and its lawyers at Kilpatrick Stockton & Townsend to overturn a jury verdict from March that awarded damages to technology licensing company SimpleAir. An earlier jury in the same Marshall, Texas, court found in January that a SimpleAir patent was infringed by technology that Google’s Android operating system uses to send push notifications to smartphone users.
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