Cardsoft, LLC v. VeriFone, Inc., No. 14-1135 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 2, 2015)

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The case returns to us on remand from the Supreme Court. In Card Soft v. VeriFone, Inc., 769 F.3d 1114 (Fed. Cir. 2014), we decided an appeal by defendant -appellants (collectively, VeriFone) from a decision of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. In construing the patent claims, t he district court adopted plaintiff-appellees’ (collectively, CardSoft’s) proposed construction for the claim term “virtual machine .” Apply- ing the district court’s construction, a jury returned a verdict for CardSoft .