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

The US solicitor general on Tuesday urged the US 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 US 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 US Patent Office.

Caltech declined to comment on the solicitor general’s filing. Representatives for the companies and the solicitor general’s office did not immediately respond to requests for comment.