Apple won a significant patent victory on 17 June when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit threw out a $300 million jury award in favor of Optis Wireless Technology. The three-judge panel said flawed jury instructions in the Texas trial deprived Apple of a unanimous verdict on each patent claim, and it ordered a new trial on both infringement and damages. The decision marks the second time a nine-figure award for Optis has been overturned in the long-running dispute over LTE standard-essential patents that originally produced a $506 million judgment in 2020. The company’s courtroom momentum stalled on 30 June when U.S. District Judge Julien X. Neals in Newark, New Jersey, refused to dismiss an antitrust case brought by the Justice Department and a coalition of states. The suit accuses Apple of unlawfully maintaining monopoly power in the U.S. smartphone market by restricting rival hardware and software from interoperating with the iPhone ecosystem. Neals said the government’s allegations were sufficient to proceed, setting the stage for years of discovery and a potential trial. Apple said it believes the claims are wrong on both the facts and the law and vowed to fight the case.