Ever since Smartflash LLC’s won one of the year’s first mega patent infringement verdicts back in February, Apple Inc.’s lawyers at Ropes & Gray and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher have been scrambling to contest the jury’s $533 million damages award. Those efforts gained some traction before the holiday weekend, when a Texas federal judge tossed out the jury’s finding that Apple’s infringement was willful.
Ruling on Thursday in Tyler, Texas, U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap agreed with Apple that jurors were wrong to find that the technology giant willfully infringed four claims across three Smartflash patents on data storage technology. Smartflash’s lawyers at Dallas-based Caldwell Cassady & Curry had convinced a jury in February that Apple infringed the patents, that the infringement was willful and that the technology giant should pay $532.9 million in damages.
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