A Federal Circuit panel recently heard oral argument in an appeal from an Eastern District of Texas judgment based on a $300M jury verdict in favor of several subsidiaries of PanOptis Holdings, LLC (collectively, “PanOptis”) against Apple. Press coverage has focused on the panel’s immediate interest in the impact of a ruling from the United Kingdom upping the amount Apple is to pay PanOptis there, to roughly $500M, but a matter at hand, of arguably wider applicability, is the practice of submitting to a jury hearing a multi-patent case a single infringement question, a general verdict practice favored by Eastern District of Texas Judge Rodney Gilstrap, the top judge in patent cases in the US.