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Not exact matches
In Panduit, the court stated: «To obtain as damages the profits
on sales he would have made absent the infringement, i. e., the sales made by the infringer, a
patent owner must prove: (1) demand for the
patented product, (2)
absence of acceptable noninfringing substitutes, (3) his manufacturing and marketing capability to exploit the demand, and (4) the amount of the profit he would have made.»
From 1995 through 1998, he was
on leave of
absence from the firm while serving in Seoul, South Korea, as
patent counsel for Samsung Display Devices (now Samsung SDI) and Samsung Aerospace Industries (now merged into Samsung Electronics).
But the other extreme would mean that a device maker could be liable for several times or even many times the profits (because each of multiple asserted design
patents would
on its own entitle its owner to a disgorgement of total profits), which underscores how little sense the
absence of any apportionment makes in this world, no matter how reasonable it may have appeared to Congress in the late 19th century when design
patents related to no - tech products like carpets.
The Commissioner of
Patents shall exercise the powers conferred and perform the duties imposed
on him by this Act under the direction of the Minister, and, in the
absence of the Commissioner of
Patents or if the Commissioner is unable to act, the Registrar of Copyrights or other officer temporarily appointed by the Minister may, as Acting Commissioner, exercise those powers and perform those duties under the direction of the Minister.