( October 6, 2026, 1:32 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied separate requests from a patent holder and its counsel William P. Ramey III for panel rehearing and rehearing en banc, leaving in place a panel’s decision to affirm a Texas federal judge’s dismissal of the patent holder’s suit against Volkswagen Group of America Inc. and an award of more than $200,000 in attorney fees to the car maker; the order also leaves in place the panel’s timeliness finding that led it to reject Ramey’s appeal of the judge’s order holding him jointly and severally liable....