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Apple Cries ‘Troll,’ Marvin Gaye: Intellectual Property

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Apple Inc., barred from calling its opponent a “patent troll” during a trial, did exactly that less than an hour after jurors found in favor of the iPhone-maker and rejected claims for $93.7 million in damages.

GPNE Corp. claimed as many as nine Apple products, including the iPhone5, the iPad3 and iPad Mini, infringed its patents covering wireless data communications in pagers. The federal jury in San Jose, California, arrived at its decisions Sept. 22, in its second day of deliberations.