( September 4, 2026, 9:06 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — After a Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel in July vacated a $12.7 million judgment against the United States awarded to software entities by a judge in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, the entities argue in a recently filed petition for panel rehearing and rehearing en banc that the panel improperly approved a hypothetical license negotiation even though the parties had twice negotiated arm’s-length licenses establishing infringed software’s market value....