Golden Bridge Technology v. Apple Inc., No. 13-1496 (Fed. Cir. July 14, 2014)

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Golden Bridge Technology, Inc. (GBT) appeals from the district court’s grant of summary judgment that Apple Inc. (Apple) does not infringe the asserted claims of U .S. Patent Nos. 6,574,267 (the ’267 patent) and 7,359,427 (the ’427 patent). We affirm. BACKGROUND GBT accused Apple of infringing t he patents-in-suit,1 which describe and claim a n improvement to a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) system. ’267 patent, Abstract. A CDMA wireless cellular network consists of a base station and multiple mobile stations, such as cellular telephones.