Spex Technologies, Inc. v. Apricorn, No. 20-2210 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 14, 2022)

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SPEX Technologies, Inc. (“SPEX”) sued Apricorn in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California for infringing U.S. Patent No. 6,088,802 (“the ’802 patent”). During claim construction, the district court held that claims 6, 7, 23, and 25 of the ’802 patent were invalid as indefinite. SPEX thereafter tried claims 11 and 12 to a jury, and the jury found that Apricorn infringed those claims. After the verdict, Apricorn moved for judgment as a matter of law (“JMOL”) that it did not infringe.