Federal Circuit Orders New Trial On Validity, Damages In Lighting Patent Fight

( July 30, 2025, 9:21 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal judge in Texas wrongly prevented a defendant lighting company from presenting evidence of the invalidity of a plaintiff patent holder’s lighting patents, a Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held, finding that the error makes a new trial on invalidity and damages necessary....