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Patent Apportionment: Anything You Say in a License Agreement May Be Used Against You in a Court of Law - UPDATED May 2025

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On May 21, 2025, the Federal Circuit “reverse[d] the district court’s denial of Google’s motion and remand[ed] for a new trial on damages.” The decision resulted in an 8-2 vote, with Judges Reyna and Stark dissenting. The...more

McDermott Will & Emery

En Banc Federal Circuit Cools Damages Award Because of Improper Expert Testimony

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In an en banc decision in EcoFactor, Inc. v. Google LLC, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit concluded that the district court abused its discretion by admitting testimony from a damages expert that a lump-sum...more

Tyson & Mendes LLP

Shining Light on Phantom Medical Bills–Lessons from Washington on Using Federal Hospital Price Transparency Rules to Fight Back

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How many of you reading this have had this experience: you get a settlement demand with hundreds of thousands of dollars in claimed hospital bills, but the actual amount owed by the claimant is redacted, or you are told by...more

BakerHostetler

The Difference Between Theory and Practice: Lighting Defense Group LLC v. Shanghai Sansi Electronic Engineering Company Ltd., et...

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You can’t make applesauce out of oranges — and experts may not cook up opinions with contrary facts. In Lighting Defense, the patent damages expert opined that in a “hypothetical negotiation,” the parties would have agreed to...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Insights for Insurers

The Bell Tolls For the "Bellefonte Cap"

In 2016, Best's Review published our article titled "The Bellefonte Cap Returns." As we explained, the Cap stemmed from the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1990 in Bellefonte Reinsurance Co. v....more

White and Williams LLP

Unringing the Bellefonte Rule

On March 2, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued its long-anticipated ruling in the Global v. Century case. More than five years after applying the Bellefonte Rule to hold that a...more

Buchalter

9 Best Practice Tips for a Schedule Analysis of Construction Delays

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It almost goes without saying that if you have to pursue or defend a delay claim, you are going to need some evidence (preferably by an expert) to establish or to challenge entitlement to the damages sought. And we all know...more

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