"U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Review Apple's $503M Patent Victory in VirnetX Case"

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a lower court's decision to overturn a $502.8 million jury verdict in favor of VirnetX against Apple in a patent dispute over internet-security patents. The dispute, which has spanned 14 years, involved challenges to the validity of VirnetX's patents by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board. The board's decisions to invalidate the patents were upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, prompting VirnetX to appeal to the Supreme Court. Apple and the Biden administration opposed VirnetX's appeal, arguing that it lacked support under federal law.