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Baker Botts L.L.P.

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

Baker Botts L.L.P.

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

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Over the last several years, the Federal Circuit has increasingly scrutinized patent litigants’ reliance on “comparable licenses” as a means for calculating a reasonable royalty, including whether the license needs to be...more

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Federal Circuit Clarifies Requirements To Establish Convoyed Sales In Patent Damages

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On March 24, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“Federal Circuit”) issued an opinion affirming a district court’s judgement of infringement while vacating and remanding the district court’s damages...more

WilmerHale

The Broken Balance: How “Built-in Apportionment” and the Failure to Apply Daubert Have Distorted Patent Infringement Damages

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The United States patent system is designed to be a balance: in exchange for the inventor disclosing their invention to the public, pa-tentees are granted exclusive rights to that invention for a period of time. This ensures...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - June 2024

EcoFactor, Inc. v. Google LLC, Appeal No. 2023-1101 (Fed. Cir. June 3, 2024) In the Federal Circuit’s only precedential patent opinion this week, the court addressed issues of infringement and admissibility that arose...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Can’t Hide Behind Minor Clerical Error to Escape Willful Infringement Verdict

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court decision correcting a clerical error in a claim. Pavo Solutions LLC v. Kingston Technology Company, Inc., Case Nos. 21-1834 (Fed. Cir. June 3, 2022)...more

McDermott Will & Emery

One for All, and All for One . . . Except When It Comes to Patent License Comparability

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Examining whether portfolio patent licenses can be sufficiently comparable to a single-patent license for the purposes of supporting a patent damages verdict, a split panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - September 2021 #3

Omega Patents, LLC, v. CalAmp Corp., Appeal Nos. 2020-1793, -1794, (Fed. Cir. Sept. 14, 2021) - In its only precedential patent case this week, the Federal Circuit sent a case back for a third trial on the issue of...more

Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP

Federal Circuit Affirms Exclusion of Expert Opinion on Reasonable Royalty Rate

On August 26, in MCL Intellectual Property, LLC v. Micron Technology, Inc., the Federal Circuit affirmed exclusion of an expert opinion regarding a reasonable royalty, holding that the district court did not abuse its...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Damage Expert Testimony Excluded for Failure to Disclose Evidence and to Apportion

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s decision to preclude a damage expert from characterizing license agreements and opining on a reasonable royalty rate where the sponsoring party...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - August 2021 #5

MLC Intellectual Property, LLC v. Micron Technology, Inc., Appeal No. 2020-1413 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 26, 2021) - For those interested in an important Section 112 written description case, we recommend reading the Juno...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Hologic, Inc. v. Minerva Surgical, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2020)

On April 22, 2020, the Federal Circuit "grappled," as the opinion put it, with the equitable doctrine of assignor estoppel in Hologic, Inc. v. Minerva Surgical, Inc., the Federal Circuit "grappled," as the opinion put it,...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Jury Verdict of $145 Million Reduced to $10 Million Based on Expert’s Failure to Properly Apportion

On January 3, 2019, following a jury’s award of $145 million in damages to Wi-LAN, the Southern District of California granted Apple’s motion for a conditional order of remittitur to a $10 million damages award. In granting...more

McDermott Will & Emery

There Is More than One Way to Slice the Apportionment Analysis - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation v....

Addressing the application of the smallest salable patent-practicing unit analysis, as well as the impact of a patent’s standards essential status on apportionment and the relevance of prior licenses between the parties, the...more

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