At the closing arguments of a seven-day patent infringement trial in the Eastern District of Texas, which led this month to a $22.1 million verdict against Apple, lawyers representing AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and a host of other technology and telecommunications, who had come to observe the proceedings, had to exit the courtroom.

And closings were not the only time those lawyers, and other interested onlookers had to leave during the trial, which pitted Acacia Research Corp., the largest publicly traded patent-assertion entity, against Apple.

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