The median total award in the 1973 - 83 period was $ 12,671, which is less than half of the average damages award of $ 27,464.
The median total award in 2003 - 2013 was $ 29,365 — almost half of the average award.
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.
The HRC also considered each of the named executive's base salary and annual incentive compensation target in connection with the value of the Performance Share
awards to set
total fixed and target variable compensation for the named executives between the estimated
median and 75th percentile of the Labor Market Peer Group.