A CRA expert estimated damages attributable to the accused infringement of copyrighted medical animations, which were used for educational purposes. The defendant was accused of creating the infringing animations following the termination of a license agreement between the parties. CRA used a reasonable royalty approach based on the prior license agreement to estimate the hypothetical fee the defendant would have had to pay for the accused use of the animations.
Patent damages jury verdicts aren't always end of the story
It has been over three years since Intel Corporation was ordered by a federal jury to pay VLSI Technology LLC over $2 billion in damages. During that time, the...