A U.S. appeals court on Friday rejected a jury verdict ordering Apple Inc. and Broadcom Inc. to pay $1.1 billion to the California Institute of Technology for infringing its Wi-Fi technology patents, and ordered a new trial on damages. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said the January 2020 award by the federal jury in Los Angeles, one of the largest ever in patent cases, was “legally unsupportable.” It also upheld the jury’s findings that Apple and Broadcom infringed two Caltech patents, and ordered a new trial on whether they infringed a third patent. The California Institute of Technology had sued Apple and Broadcom in May 2016, alleging that millions of iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches, and other devices using Broadcom chips infringed its data-transmission patents. The jury had ordered Apple to pay Caltech $837.8 million and Broadcom to pay an additional $270.2 million. The California Institute of …