In mid-April, an Eastern District of Texas jury returned a verdict awarding G+ Communications LLC $142M in a damages retrial against Samsung before Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap: $61M for the infringement of one former ZTE patent and $81M of another. Now, in an inter partes review (IPR) triggered by a petition filed by Samsung based on the disclosure of an LG Electronics (LGE) patent, the PTAB has canceled a set of claims from that second patent that includes claim 20, the one found infringed by the East Texas jury. In parallel, the Patent Office, also last week, in an ex parte reexamination (EPR) found the infringed claims of the second patent to be obvious on multiple grounds, including a single-reference challenge based on an application associated with another LGE patent.