Verdict in T-Cell Immunotherapy IP Case Tests 'Reasonable Royalty' Concept for Large Damage Awards
A case pending in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals highlights the importance of negotiating the term of royalty payments in the license of Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-regulated products. This is particularly notable...more
A federal court jury in Texas has awarded more than $30 million in damages to woman-owned beauty start-up Lashify Inc. The jury found that Qingdao Lashbeauty Cosmetic Co., a Chinese company doing business as Worldbeauty,...more
For the second time in less than two weeks, a circuit court decided an appeal hinging on the Brulotte rule, which holds that patent royalties are impermissible when based on payments for the use of expired patents. Like the...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a district court’s finding that a contract impermissibly allowed for patent royalties after the patent expired because the post-termination royalty payments were...more
Damages experts in patent cases have a tough task. They must construct a hypothetical negotiation between the parties that would have taken place just before the alleged infringement started. And the goal of this hypothetical...more
The Federal Circuit will hear oral argument on March 5, 2024, in In re: California Expanded Metal Products, Co., No. 23-1140, a case that presents two intriguing issues regarding patent remedies. The first issue is the...more
According to Judge Gilstrap in the Eastern District of Texas, obligations to negotiate under fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms apply not only to standard essential patent (SEP) holders but to implementers...more
Licensing intellectual property (IP) can be a game-changer for a company’s commercialization, whether creating research and development opportunities, opening new markets or gaining access to complementary technologies. When...more
In a noteworthy year for patent law, the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued several decisions that will shape the patent landscape and the Federal Rules of Evidence governing...more
Litigation over standard-essential patents, or SEPs, can be a cyclical phenomenon, where litigation follows a generational change in technology. We saw it with 3G and 4G technology, where each generational change led to a...more
The U.S. Patent Office, the National Institute of Standards and the International Trade Administration are all currently seeking input to establish U.S. policy on foreign standard-essential patent licensing regulatory regimes...more
Four subjects stood out in patent litigation in Texas in April 2023: (1) applicability of the customer-suit exception to the first-to-file rule; (2) the level of ties a reasonable royalty methodology must have to the facts of...more
This blog has long noted that large Big Tech implementers (e.g., Apple and Google) are engaged in a long term play to incrementally drive down (to zero) their costs and knee-cap their potential competitors before they are a...more
Spring cleaning: a transactional check-up for life sciences companies - This is an article in our 2023 series, “Life Sciences Transactional Insights”, which aims to provide key practical takeaways for our transactional...more
CONCLUSION and Footnotes - Disclosures of potentially standard-essential patents and patent applications have for long been a topic of little interest for third parties to the collaborative standardization process. Yet,...more
DISCLOSURES AND ENFORCEABILITY OF SEPS - Beyond the SDO IPRs policies themselves, disclosures of standard essential patents in the SDO context are also influenced by legal developments, and in particular by antitrust...more
III. Principles and Methods Adopted by Chinese Courts for Calculating SEP Royalties in Lawsuits in the Field of Communications - 1. Regarding Justiciability of SEP License Disputes in China - Interpretation of the Supreme...more
The new trends of motorization, intelligence, networking, and shared service of automobiles are leading to a global reform and becoming industrial technological highlands across the world. They are included in the strategic...more
Taxpayers with royalties owing from a foreign affiliate may wish to negotiate a prepayment of the future royalty stream for a lump sum price. This could include accelerating foreign source income or repatriating cash from a...more
Coming out of the COVID shutdown era, patent infringement litigation has been hot. To be sure, there have been big headlines during the past couple of years, among them billion-dollar verdicts against Intel and Cisco in...more
The Tenth Circuit has affirmed a lower court’s judgment dismissing an action claiming breach of a patent settlement agreement. The court agreed that the patent owner failed to establish damages for unpaid royalties, given...more
Opponents of the use of Section 337 by Standard Essential Patent (SEP) holders claim that the threat of ITC exclusion orders lends itself to patent hold-up. These opponents, however, can point to no instance in which an ITC...more
Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals L.P. v. U.S. Venture, Inc., Appeal Nos. 2020-1640, -1641 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 29, 2022) - Our case of the week has a little bit for everyone, including lost profits, reasonable royalties,...more
A recent decision from Judge Stark, now presiding at the Federal Circuit, endorses the use, by a patent owner’s damages expert, of sales projections and a “litigation risk multiplier” in determining reasonably royalty...more
In two recent decisions, both issued on February 4, 2022, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the “CAFC”) erased two huge patent damages awards because the underlying expert opinion on damages was...more