April 2018 The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's recent decision in Exmark Manufacturing Company v. Briggs & Stratton Power Products Group, LLC (January 12, 2018) validates that there is no clear-cut method to value a patented invention’s contribution to a larger, multicomponent product (aka apportionment). Specifically, the Federal Circuit stated that “…apportionment [...]
March 2014 The Eastern District of Texas is well known for its intense patent activity and already provides early disclosure of infringement and invalidity contentions to facilitate faster resolution of these cases. The Court has now taken similar action by providing an option for accelerated damage discovery, including requiring a two week turnaround between defendant’s [...]
December 2013 The Federal Circuit ruled in Uniloc USA, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp. that the widely used (but fatally flawed) 25 percent rule can no longer be part of reasonable royalty damages calculations. This article provides the details of this reasonable royalty damages decision. Since that time, plaintiffs have advanced the Nash Bargaining Solution, a [...]