Apple promptly calls out 'patent troll' after trial win

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 upon its wireless data communication in pagers.

Kristin Huguet, a spokeswoman for Cupertino, California-based Apple, said in an email after the verdict that GPNE is nothing more than a “patent troll” attempting to “extort money from Apple for 20-year-old pager patents that have expired, wasting time for everyone involved," according to Bloomberg.

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