A panel of judges has thrown out a statute that would have forced Apple to pay $625m (383m) for purported obvious infringements.
A jury motionless final year that Apple's Spotlight, Time Machine and Cover Flow systems disregarded 3 patents hold by tiny technology definite Mirror Worlds.
However, Judge Leonard Davis overturned the outcome adage that the petitioner had unsuccessful to accurately make their case.
The initial excellent was a of the greatest ever for obvious infringement.
Mirror Worlds, owned by Yale University computer-science Professor David Gelernter, sued Apple in 2008.
The disagreement centred on how papers are displayed on-screen - quite the 'card-flipping' technique utilized when a user scrolls by song in their iTunes library.
In October 2010, a sovereign jury in Tyler, Texas awarded Mirror Worlds $208.5m in indemnification for any of the 3 purported infringements.
Apple appealed, severe the effect of the not as big firm's patents and arguing that they were not infringed.
Reviewing the case, Judge Davis inspected Mirror Worlds' patents, but motionless that that the company had not supposing sufficient indication to encouragement its complaint.
"Mirror Worlds might have embellished an attractive photo is to jury," he said.
"But it unsuccessful to lay a plain substructure sufficient to encouragement critical elements it was compulsory to settle beneath the law."
Neither Apple nor Mirror Worlds have commented on the new ruling.
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