WASHINGTON — Non-practicing entity SimpleAir Inc. has been on a roll. Its patents on an online notification service won settlements with Apple and Microsoft, scored an $85 million jury verdict against Google, and survived an attempted inter partes review at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

But SimpleAir’s momentum has come to a grinding halt in the last month. First Google, backed by a new team of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan attorneys, scored a defense win in a second trial over another SimpleAir patent. And on Thursday, Quinn partner Charles Verhoeven appeared to persuade the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit court to send the $85 million verdict back to the Eastern District of Texas for a retrial.

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