United States Federal Circuit

In this patent infringement action involving multi-tier virtual private networks, the district court’s judgment of non-infringement of the ‘796 patent, willful infringement of the ‘011 patent, no invalidity of the ‘011 patent, award of prejudgment interest, and finding of no error in its evidentiary rulings are affirmed, where the district court correctly construed the term “destination address” to mean “network address” and where the award of prejudgment interest was not an abuse of discretion as it merely placed plaintiff SSL in the position it would have been in had defendant Citrix paid a reasonable royalty beginning on the date the infringement began. Denial of prevailing party status to SSL is vacated and remanded for an assessment of costs and fees, where SSL is found to be the prevailing party.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/14/2014
• Published 10/14/2014

Judges

• O'Malley

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel