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Brumfield and Its Wake: Extraterritorial Sales in Reasonable Royalty Damages

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In 2024, the Federal Circuit set forth a standard for determining whether extraterritorial sales activity could be considered in a reasonable royalty award for patent infringement. Here, we summarize the court’s opinion in...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Reasonable Royalty Available for Foreign Activities (But Not This Time)

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s decision to preclude a patent owner from seeking damages based on method claims infringed outside of the United States but confirmed that reasonable...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - April 2024

Harris Brumfield v. IBG LLC, Appeal No. 2022-1630 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 27, 2024) In our case of the week, the Federal Circuit addressed three issues in a dispute that dates back to 2010, and has been to the Court on three...more

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The Assertion of Extraterritorial Patent Jurisdiction in Europe

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US patents have some extraterritorial effect. A party can be liable for patent infringement if it supplies components of a patented invention to a foreign country to be assembled there. In WesternGeco LLC v. ION Geophysical...more

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July 2018 IP Update: In Limited Circumstances, the Supreme Court Permits Businesses to Recover Patent Damages for Sales Made...

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The Supreme Court recently answered the question whether a patent owner can collect damages caused by an infringer’s sales outside the U.S. Federal law typically reaches only conduct within the country, but the justices made...more

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Extraterritorial Reach Of Patents— Impact Of Recent Supreme Court Decisions

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Jackson Walker partner Leisa Talbert Peschel spoke at the 14th Annual Advanced Patent Litigation Course on Thursday, July 12, at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Rocky Mountain Regional Office in Denver, Colorado. ...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

Patents: Lost & Found WesternGeco Provides for Recovery of Lost Foreign Profits

Patents are valuable intellectual property assets that grant their owners a limited monopoly over the sale and use of the patented subject matter for a fixed period of time. The patent permits its owner to recover potentially...more

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WesternGeco v. ION Geophysical

Lost Foreign Profits Awarded as Damages - It is an act of infringement under U.S. patent law to supply “in or from the United States” certain components of a patented invention with the intent that they “will be combined...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

WesternGeco LLC v. ION GeoPhysical: U.S. Supreme Court Issues Decision on Patent Damages

On June 22, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in WesternGeco LLC v. ION GeoPhysical, which addresses the ability of a patent owner to collect lost profits from sales abroad for infringement under 35 U.S.C. § 271(f)(2)....more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Component vs. Complete - the US Supreme Court imposes extraterritorial lost profits damages on parties that violate section...

On June 22, 2018, the US Supreme Court clarified the scope of permissible patent damages awards by holding that when a party is found liable under 35 U.S.C. § 271(f) for exporting components of a patented invention, foreign...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Fresh From the Bench: Latest Federal Circuit Court Cases

PATENT CASE OF THE WEEK - WesternGeco LLC v. Ion Geophysical Corp., Appeal Nos. 2016-2099, -2100, -2101, -2332, -2333, -2334 (Fed. Cir. May 7, 2018) - In an appeal from an inter partes review, the Federal Circuit...more

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Is the Federal Circuit’s Holding that the Presumption Against Extraterritoriality Making Unavailable Damages Based on a Patentee’s...

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Case at a Glance: The Court will consider whether the text of 35 U.S.C. § 271(f) imposes liability on those supplying from the United States components of a patented invention “in such a manner as to actively induce the...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

WesternGeco LLC v. ION Geophysical Corp.: Supreme Court to Determine Lost Profits Damages Arising from Patent Infringement:...

Q: Could you explain the significance of the upcoming Supreme Court case WesternGeco LLC v. ION Geophysical Corp.? Ronald E. Cahill: WesternGeco will address extraterritorial reach and a specific type of infringement...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

WesternGeco LLC v. ION Geophysical Corp.: Supreme Court to Determine Lost Profits Damages Arising from Patent Infringement:...

Q: Could you explain the significance of the upcoming Supreme Court case WesternGeco LLC v. ION Geophysical Corp.? Ronald E. Cahill: WesternGeco will address extraterritorial reach and a specific type of infringement under...more

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The Supreme Court to Tackle Extraterritorial Reach of U.S. Patents

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The Supreme Court recently granted certiorari in Life Techs. Corp. v. Promega Corp., 14-1538, to resolve: “[w]hether a supplier can be held liable for providing ‘all or a substantial portion of the components of a patented...more

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A Primer on Patent Damages - Carnegie Mellon University v. Marvell Technology Group, Ltd., et al.

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Addressing a panoply of damages issues, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a reasonable royalty, rejected the defendant’s laches defense and provided significant guidance on the application of the...more

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No Lost Profits for Extraterritorial Lost Contracts - WesternGeco L.L.C. v. ION Geophysical Corp.

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Addressing whether a patentee could recover lost profits for foreign uses of a product manufactured domestically, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed the district court’s lost profits award, holding...more

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