Contract cases in general had
higher median awards ($ 35,000) than tort cases ($ 24,000).
Not exact matches
Worse still, the total
median awards to trolls is now nearly twice as
high as those to legitimate patent holders, whose
median reward fell about 30 % to $ 4 billion, according to a 2013 report by PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
In 2015, the last time Department of Education gave the Gold Ribbon to middle and
high schools, the
median poverty indicator for the schools that actually received the
award was 26 %.
Certain federal district courts (particularly Virginia Eastern, California Central, and Pennsylvania Eastern) continue to be more favorable to patent holders, with shorter time - to - trial,
higher success rates, and
higher median damages
awards.
This was particularly the case for product liability trials, where the
median awards were about 5 times
higher in 2005 than in 1992 and for medical malpractice trials, where the
median jury
awards more than doubled from $ 280,000 in 1992 to $ 682,000 in 2005.