While it appears that Calvin Klein has taken down the apparel in question from its website, Lululemon has requested from the court a permanent injunction, damages, a declaration
of willful infringement, attorneys fees and an award of costs from the court.
Waiver of Privilege When Relying upon Advice of Counsel in Defense to an Allegation
of Willful Infringement
In a federal district court patent infringement suit, Barclay Damon represented the top innovator in the broadband cable industry and successfully obtained a jury verdict
of willful infringement against a major competitor.
In a damages trial, jury awarded damages, found defendants guilty
of willful infringement, and awarded fees to plaintiff.
Not exact matches
So I read with interest the statement it issued after it was ordered to pay $ 532.9 million to Smartflash LLC for
willful infringement of three U.S. patents.
If both sides, through their eyes and their people's eyes, have concluded that the plaintiff is absolutely going to win this case, and the plaintiff is going to get a lot
of money because they're totally on board with everything that has been presented, then that might be a good reason for the defendant to agree to a settlement with the plaintiff for less money than the potential exposure if the jury comes back and finds
willful infringement.
The European Commission has officially launched an
infringement procedure against France and Luxembourg over the
willful lowering
of ebook VAT rates.
Federal Jury Finds Cox Communications Guilty
of Willful Copyright
Infringement (Digital Music News)
Harper Seeks Injunction in Dispute with Open Road — HarperCollins has just upped the ante in their lawsuit against Open Road, filing for a permanent injunction to block the publication
of the digital version
of Julie
of the Wolves, as well as monetary damages for «
willful infringement»
of HarperCollins» alleged... more >
That leaves the jury to decide only the amount
of damages he will have to pay and whether his
infringement was
willful.
He pointed out that criminal copyright
infringement requires that
willful infringement has taken place, and that taking Megaupload offline had produced the «deeply unconstitutional effect»
of denying legitimate users access to their data.
[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.
Management Pressure, Late Opinion, and Lack
of Reliance Support
Willful Patent
Infringement Verdict
The biggest deal here, by far, is Apple's loss on
willful infringement, where if the jury's finding
of willfulness was upheld and taken to its limit, it could have resulted in $ 3 billion in damages awarded to Apple.
For illegally under - paying songwriters while handing «outrageous annual salaries to its executives,» Wixen is seeking statutory damages in excess
of $ 1.6 bn — or $ 150,000 per song — for «
willful copyright
infringement».
As a result
of that case, enhanced damages are now only available for
willful patent
infringement that is at least «objectively reckless.»