Biden administration urges Supreme Court not to hear Apple-Caltech patent case


FILE PHOTO The Apple Inc logo is seen at the entrance to the Apple store in Brussels Belgium November 28 2022. REUTERSYves Herman

FILE PHOTO: The Apple Inc logo is seen at the entrance to the Apple store in Brussels, Belgium November 28, 2022. REUTERS/Yves Herman

(Reuters) - The U.S. solicitor general on Tuesday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject an appeal by Apple Inc and Broadcom Inc stemming from their $1.1 billion trial loss to the California Institute of Technology in a patent infringement case.

Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar said the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit was correct when it ruled last year that the companies could not seek to invalidate Caltech's patents in court after Apple failed to raise its invalidity arguments at the U.S. Patent Office.

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