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.
A look at Chinese courts’ new approach to IP damages
In this Law360 article, Fei Deng, Hong Qiao, and Yi Cheng examine the trend of Chinese courts toward awarding larger non-statutory damage awards in IP cases....