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Damages Experts: Has the Federal Circuit Lowered the Admissibility Standard?

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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

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

Judge Gilstrap: For Implementers of SEPs, the Penitent Will Pass

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

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Texas Patent Litigation Monthly Wrap-Up: April 2023

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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

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Disclosures And Enforceability Of Standard-Essential Patents (Part 7 of 7)

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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

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Federal Circuit Rejects Two-Tiered Royalty Patent Damages

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By Dan Staren and David Barker Last week, a Federal Circuit panel vacated a billion dollar jury verdict in favor of plaintiff-appellee California Institute of Technology (“Caltech”) and remanded for a new trial on damages...more

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Texas Patent Litigation Monthly Wrap-Up - October 2021

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This post summarizes some of the significant developments related to patent litigation in federal district courts of Texas for the month of October 2021....more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Federal Circuit Confirms That a Patent Damages Expert May Opine on a Range of Royalty Rates at Trial

In a recent decision issued in Bayer Healthcare LLC v. Baxalta Inc., the Federal Circuit held that the district court did not abuse its discretion when it allowed the jury to select from a range of proposed royalty rates...more

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The Patent Litigation Money Pit

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Patent litigation, the Sport of Kings, does not come cheap, especially when the litigation transmogrifies into a multi-jurisdictional slugfest. When managing a global patent fight, it is important to keep the big picture in...more

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Ongoing Appeals May Shape How Juries and Courts Determine Patent Royalties

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A patent holder that prevails in a patent infringement suit is entitled to either lost profits or a reasonable royalty. A reasonable royalty calculation often implicates the infringing product's revenues (the "royalty...more

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Exmark’s the Spot for Royalty Rate Apportionment

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The language of the patent damages statute, 35 U.S.C. § 284, appears straightforward – “[u]pon finding for the claimant the court shall award the claimant damages adequate to compensate for the infringement, but in no event...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

One Size Does Not Fit All When It Comes to Economic Theories Used to Determine Royalty Rates

Calculating royalty rates as part of a patent dispute often becomes a hotly-disputed issue, where opposing economic theories from expert witnesses are pinned against one another. As a litigant, care must be taken when...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Score This One in Favor of Standard-Essential Patent Owners: Recent Decision Makes Satisfying FRAND Obligations Easier

A recent decision in the Eastern District of Texas should provide standard-essential patent (“SEP”) owners with more clarity and optimism when negotiating SEP licenses. Coming on the heels of Judge Koh’s decision in the FTC’s...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

District Court of Delaware awards an ongoing royalty that applies not just to adjudicated products but also to non-adjudicated...

Recently, in Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1 v. TCL Commc’n Tech. Holdings Ltd., the Delaware District Court awarded the prevailing plaintiff in a patent infringement suit an ongoing royalty that covers not only the products...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

PanOptis’ Recent Victory against Huawei Demonstrates Why an International Enforcement Approach Is Advisable for Standard-Essential...

PanOptis Patent Management, LLC (“PanOptis”) was recently awarded enhanced damages and ongoing royalties as a result of Huawei Technology Co. Ltd. (“Huawei”) infringing five of its patents, four of which were alleged to be...more

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Federal Jury Finds that Ericsson’s Licensing Offer to HTC is FRAND

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On February 15, a Texas federal jury found that Ericsson did not breach its obligation to offer HTC licenses to its standard-essential patents (SEPs) on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms. The verdict ended...more

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Momenta Contends ORENCIA IPR Appeal Is Not Moot

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On October 23, 2018, we previously reported that the Federal Circuit ordered Momenta to show cause as to why Momenta’s appeal of a PTAB decision upholding the patentability of BMS’s U.S. Patent No. 8,476,239, relating to...more

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Top Ten Patent Wars – Cotton Gin (#8)

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Why is Whitney So Important? Next on our list of Top Ten Patent Wars is not the one that most patent historians think of, the so-called “Sewing Machine” Wars of the 1850s-1860s, which is intriguing because it led to...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Upon Reconsideration, E.D.Tex. Judge Affirms Ericsson’s Previously-Vacated Jury Award Against TCL

On May 10, 2018, Magistrate Judge Payne reconsidered his previous March 2018 order which had vacated a jury award, and granted plaintiff Ericsson’s motion for reconsideration. The May ruling makes clear that the accused...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Patent Damages: How Many Essential Features in a Smart Phone?

On March 20, 2018, the public version of Eastern District of Texas Magistrate Judge Roy Payne’s March 7, 2018 order tossing a $75 million jury verdict obtained by Ericsson against TCL Communication was released. Ericsson...more

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[Webinar] Best Practices for Licensing in Today's Evolving Legal Framework - June 16th, 1:00pm CST

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The Supreme Court of the United States recently held that royalty payments beyond the expiration of a patent are per se unlawful. However, many ground-breaking technologies being developed and licensed from the nation's...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Microsoft And Google Resolve FRAND And Other Patent Disputes

Microsoft and Google announced that they have settled their global patent disputes, including the litigation underlying the FRAND dispute that gave rise to Judge Robart’s first-of-its-kind decision on determining a FRAND...more

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NexusCard Seeks Wonderland in Georgia After Alice Motion in Texas

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NexusCard, Inc. (“NexusCard”), a California corporation with its principal place of business in Lake Forest, California, filed a patent infringement action on August 18, 2015, against grocery chain Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc....more

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En Banc Federal Circuit Maintains Laches Defense With Post-Suit Twist (SCA V. First Quality)

Today, in SCA v. First Quality, the Federal Circuit sitting en banc ruled that the equitable doctrine of laches remains a valid defense in patent infringement actions notwithstanding the Supreme Court’s recent decision in...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Sublicensee’s Purchase of Licensee Not Prohibited under the License Agreement - VDF FutureCeuticals, Inc. v. Stiefel Labs., Inc.

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled that a sublicensee of patent and trademark rights that purchased its sublicensor in order to reduce the royalties it owned to the licensor was not prohibited from buying...more

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Ninth Circuit Affirms District Court Decision Regarding Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (RAND) Obligations in Patent Licensing...

In a recent decision, the Ninth Circuit affirmed a jury verdict awarding Microsoft $14.5 million for Motorola's breach of its obligation to offer Microsoft reasonable and non-discriminatory (RAND) licenses for certain...more

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