$625.5 million patent suit against Apple is overturned

Hmmm... 1 Federal Judge overturns 12 jury verdict after
"Apple asked the judge to postpone enforcing the award since it objected to how the fines were calculated."...

IMO, that translates to $1.5M to the Federal Judge, $624 to Apple and SQUAT to the patent holders.

One hell of a patent system in the US.

Even so, the outcome of the patent litigation between Apple and Nokia is far from certain. As noted by Alexander Poltorak at GPC: "One cannot help wondering if the latest round [of suits between Apple and Nokia] is not a proxy for a fight between Microsoft and Apple, which are rivals as well." It's questionable whether these mobile wars should take place in the courts, in the form of patent litigation, or should be properly restricted to the marketplace, where they rightfully belong. Whatever one's position on the issue, however, it's true that as long as IP rights exist, then patentees have every legal right to enforce them.
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