苹果躲过一劫：21亿 LTE专利侵权赔偿案被推翻

Group 1 - Apple won a significant legal victory in a long-standing patent lawsuit against Optis Wireless Technology, as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit overturned a lower court ruling that required Apple to pay $300 million in damages [1][2] - The case was sent back to Texas for retrial due to flawed jury instructions in the previous trial, marking the second time that a nine-figure patent damages award to Optis has been overturned [1][2] - Optis, a Texas-based intellectual property management company, initially sued Apple in 2019, claiming that iPhones and other Apple products infringed on patents related to LTE wireless standards [1] Group 2 - In the second trial, the jury reduced the damages to $300 million, but Apple appealed and won, with the appellate court focusing on the jury's decision-making process rather than the specific amount of damages [2] - The appellate court noted that the lower court's judge improperly combined multiple patents into a single infringement issue, which deprived Apple of the right to a unanimous verdict on each legal claim against it [2] - An Optis spokesperson expressed confidence that the court would determine a fair compensation amount for the patents critical to enabling high-speed connections for millions of Apple devices [2]