United States Federal Circuit

In an infringement suit involving two patents related to hard-disk drives, the jury's finding of infringement and validity and award of $1.17 billion as a reasonable royalty for the infringing acts is: 1) affirmed as to the judgment of infringement of validity; 2) affirmed as to the rejection of defendant's laches defense to pre-suit damages; 3) reversed as to the grant of enhanced damages under the governing willfulness standard, which does not required that defendant have had a reasonable defense in mind when it committed its past infringement; and 4) reversed in part as to one aspect of the royalty calculation, and remanded to determine the location of "sale" of defendant's chips made and delivered abroad but never imported into the United States.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/04/2015
• Published 08/04/2015

Judges

• Taranto

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel