Sentences with phrase «apportionment makes in this world»

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.