RIM has reportedly been ordered to pay $ 147.2 million in
damages over a patent concerning how it manages devices connected to its BlackBerry exchange servers.
Not exact matches
According to statements filed in court, the Australians feel their methods are «sufficiently different to have not infringed» the property rights of the Royal Canadian Mint, which also want the Australians to admit they infringed the
patent, to hand
over or destroy all advertising and promotional materials related to the Australian coins, and to either surrender profits or pay
damages.
The Court noted that although enhanced
damage awards are discretionary, they must be consistent with a pattern laid out in
over 180 years of case law under the
Patent Act and earlier statutes.
It asked the court to tell the jury about that interpretation of the
patent (which will now finally happen, tomorrow, as a result of the Federal Circuit decision), and it wanted to point to Apple's own 60 - cent - per - device
damages claim
over this
patent in the Motorola case.
«Reining in Remedies in
Patent Litigation: Three (Increasingly Immodest) Proposals» proposes that injunctions be unavailable over FRAND - pledged SEPs, advocates apportionment of the disgorgement of an infringer's profits that a design patent holder can seek (this approach would have taken care of a substantial part of the damages issue in Apple v. Samsung, for example), and finally — which is the most ambitious part but makes a lot of sense to me — elaborates in the form of a «thought experiment» on an idea Judge Posner tossed out a few month ago: for a «wide swath of U.S. patent cases» it might be preferable to avoid j
Patent Litigation: Three (Increasingly Immodest) Proposals» proposes that injunctions be unavailable
over FRAND - pledged SEPs, advocates apportionment of the disgorgement of an infringer's profits that a design
patent holder can seek (this approach would have taken care of a substantial part of the damages issue in Apple v. Samsung, for example), and finally — which is the most ambitious part but makes a lot of sense to me — elaborates in the form of a «thought experiment» on an idea Judge Posner tossed out a few month ago: for a «wide swath of U.S. patent cases» it might be preferable to avoid j
patent holder can seek (this approach would have taken care of a substantial part of the
damages issue in Apple v. Samsung, for example), and finally — which is the most ambitious part but makes a lot of sense to me — elaborates in the form of a «thought experiment» on an idea Judge Posner tossed out a few month ago: for a «wide swath of U.S.
patent cases» it might be preferable to avoid j
patent cases» it might be preferable to avoid juries.
The case was successfully settled shortly after Mr. Randall obtained an expert report from the author of several key prior art references and
damaging testimony from the inventors concerning the patentability of the asserted
patent over that prior art.
That footnote refers to Samsung's previously - announced Supreme Court petition
over design
patent damages.
Arent Fox, representing Advanced Aerospace Technologies, Inc., in February sued The Boeing Company and a subsidiary, Insitu, Inc., seeking more than $ 160 million in
damages in a
patent infringement suit
over technology for the retrieval of unmanned aerial vehicles without a runway.
2017 FC 637 - The FC addressed three outstanding issues in the calculation of
damages and profits and ordered Nova to pay Dow
over $ 644 million for infringing Dow's Canadian
patent.
The court also upheld the jury's $ 6M
damage verdict in Meriturn against the plaintiff's claim that it was too low (the plaintiff sought
over $ 23M,) While the plaintiff sought lost profits (profits lost as a result of the investment going bad due to the bad
patent advice), those
damages were foreclosed by the «new business» rule.
Levinsohn's work with Facebook (s FB) to repair the relationship
damaged by ex-CEO Scott Thompson's lawsuit
over patents (supported by some still on the board) and the details of the deal got attention but much of it was still in the context of whether it would help him get the job.
As the report notes, the median
damages awarded to
patent trolls tripled that of practicing entities
over the last four years.
Apple originally requested $ 380 million in
damages, based on
over a hundred million in lost profits, two hundred million in Samsung profits, and an extra $ 35 million in
patent royalties.
Out of the three
patented features, the one pertaining to quick links gave Apple entitlement to
over $ 98 million in
damages, since the Cupertino giant invented the feature.
BREAKING: Supreme Court rules for Samsung in dispute
over damages owed for infringing Apple's
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