The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a bid by Centripetal Networks Inc to reinstate the largest award in the history of U.S. patent law — $2.75 billion — to be paid by Cisco Systems Inc. in a cybersecurity patent dispute. The justices turned away Reston, Virginia-based cybersecurity company Centripetal's appeal of a lower court's decision to negate the award after the judge who presided over the trial disclosed that his wife owned Cisco stock worth $4,688.
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