«Economic Benefits of Clarifying the Standard for Assessing «Reasonable Royalty»
Damages Under Patent Law,» Everett Ehrlich, Ph.D..
Not exact matches
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.
The decision ten months ago reflected the decision that
damages should be readjusted in accordance with the court's definition of «article of manufacture»,
under section 289 of the
Patent Act.
Such a disgorgement is only permissible if at least one design
patent was infringed (it's impermissible for infringement of utility
patents) and (which is not specific to design
patents but to all
patent damages under 35 U.S.C. § 287 (a)-RRB- if the infringer had «actual or constructive notice of the
patent» (as Judge Koh described the requirement in her
damages order).
ION opposed the petition largely on the grounds that the case was a poor vehicle for the Court to consider extraterritorial
damages under § 271 (f) because of other issues in the case, including that the USPTO's
Patent Trial and Appeal Board subsequently found several claims in WesternGeco's patent to be unpatentable in an inter partes review proce
Patent Trial and Appeal Board subsequently found several claims in WesternGeco's
patent to be unpatentable in an inter partes review proce
patent to be unpatentable in an inter partes review proceeding.
The decision to hear a case that reviews whether a
patent owner can recover profits lost outside of the U.S. due to infringement
under 271 (f) could have significant consequences on
damages awards.
[2] It should also be noted that the Federal Circuit has ruled similarly on the issue of enhanced
damages for willful infringement — that a reasonable belief that a
patent is invalid prevents the satisfaction of the first, objective recklessness prong
under Seagate (497 F. 3d 1360 (Fed.
In a 8 - 0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that
damages for infringement of design
patents under 35 U.S.C. § 289 can be limited to the defendant's «total profits» from the article of manufacture that contains the
patented design, which may only be one component of a commercial product, rather than...
In a 8 - 0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that
damages for infringement of design
patents under 35 U.S.C. § 289 can be limited to the defendant's «total profits» from the article of manufacture that contains the
patented design, which may only be one component of a commercial product, rather than the entire product.
Inter partes review and other post-grant proceedings
under the America Invents Act, changes to legal standards governing
patent eligibility, and increasingly stringent review of
patent damage awards have all combined to alter substantially the risk profile associated with
patent licensing and enforcement.
While this decision does not affect design
patent damages based on the
patent owner's lost profits or a reasonable royalty, it is likely to limit the desirability of seeking the infringer's profits
under 35 U.S.C. § 289 in some cases, primarily those involving designs on portions of products.
I would keep things as they were and not subject basic questions of
patent law to an unbounded inquiry
under antitrust law, with its treble
damages and famously burdensome discovery...»
These situations involve the complicated interactions between the
Patented Medicine (Notice of Compliance) Regulations, including
damages under Section 8 of those regulations, as well as provincial substitution policies for pharmaceutical products.
The consumer — first of all, consumers aren't sued, because
under the
patent law,
under like —
under — unlike copyright law, there are no liquidated
damages.