( July 30, 2026, 2:43 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied without explanation Microsoft Corp.’s petition for panel rehearing or rehearing en banc, leaving in place a panel’s March reversal of a Texas federal judge’s decision to exclude a plaintiff technology company’s expert on damages and vacatur of the judge’s grant of summary judgment for absence of remedy in Microsoft’s favor on infringement claims involving patents describing a method for communication between virtual networks....