United States Federal Circuit

In plaintiff's suit for infringement of three patents related to transmission of data in telecommunications networks, the judgment of the district court is affirmed in part, vacated in part and remanded where: 1) denial of defendant's JMOL motion on invalidity of the '306 patent is vacated and remanded as the court erroneously construed the only term on which it based its denial; 2) denial of defendant's JMOL motion that the asserted claims of the '763 patent are indefinite is affirmed; 3) district court's finding that the jury's verdict of $6.5 million award compensates plaintiff only for past infringement is not clearly erroneous; 4) district court's award of interest under section 284 does not constitute an impermissible double recovery; and 5) it did not abuse its discretion by directing the parties to negotiate the terms of the appropriate royalty.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/06/2010
• Published 07/06/2010

Judges

• Rader, J.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Donald R. Dunner, Edward R. Reines