On the heels of a $1.17 billion verdict in a patent case, a federal judge took a hard line with the losing party after it filed a motion for judgment as a matter of law or a new trial.

In December, Marvell Technology Group was handed a billion-dollar verdict by a jury that found it had willfully infringed on two patents held by Carnegie Mellon University, and Marvell asked the court to grant a new trial, citing misconduct on the part of CMU lawyers.