This is a major case involving poor and vulnerable foreign plaintiffs, a large international corporation, a long and difficult court process and
a huge damages award.
A recent Court decision found an arguably analogous situation as this to be a trademark violation, among other things, in my opinion under somewhat similar circumstances and
a huge damage award was made.
Not exact matches
This is the third substantial talc verdict against J&J this year ---- other
huge losses have taken place, with
damages awarded to plaintiffs in two separate verdicts in the amount of $ 55 million and $ 72 million.
And in this case, where the modest
damages and 95 % of the
huge costs will be borne presumably by the management company (unless their solicitors ran the defence on a conditional fee arrangement), the claimant will theoretically end up paying a percentage of the costs
award herself out of her share of the management fund, added to which inter-lessee relations will hardly have been improved by this appreciable charge to the fund to which all must contribute.
«However, this case is still important since an outsized
damages award in Apple's favor could encourage other design patent holders to sue alleged infringers for
huge amounts of money.»
I am confident such a jury will see how unlawful they have acted and
award a
huge amount of
damages that will teach the industry a lesson that they will never forget.