Courthouse News Service

LUFKIN, Texas (CN) - A federal judge refused to let Personal Audio take a second bite at Apple for patent infringement, finding that a jury's lump-sum award applies to all Apple products, not just those presented at trial. Personal Audio sued Apple, Sirius XM Radio, Coby Electronics and Archos in federal court for selling portable music players that infringe on two of its patents. The patents involve the technology to play a sequence of audio files and skip forward and backward through the sequence.