On November 26, 2018, visiting Judge Bataillon in the District of Delaware issued a judgment in favor of The Washington University in St. Louis and against Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) for breach of contract. WashU was awarded damages of $31.6 million for underpayment of royalty income under the parties’ inter-institutional license agreement (IIA). The litigation arose from a dispute between WashU and WARF about the relative value of different patents and allocation of royalties to those patents under the terms of the IIA.
IP Literature Watch: March 2024
In this month’s IP Literature Watch we include an article analyzing four case studies of controversy over license design in open-source software and hardware...