Complex Facts Test Patent Experts’ Apportionment Skills

Business Valuation UpdateVol. 21 No. 10
Legal and Court Case Update
October 2015
7372 Prepackaged Software
511210 Software Publishers
intellectual property
damages, patent infringement, royalty rate, daubert, expert testimony, reasonable royalty, royalty base, rule 702, apportionment

Finjan, Inc. v. Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (I)
2015 U.S. LEXIS 91528
July 14, 2015
US
Federal Court
California
United States District Court
Dr. Anne Layne-Farrar (plaintiff); Julie Davis (defendant)
Freeman

Summary

Court admits apportionment based on lines of infringing code and on value defendant places on product features in accused products but excludes apportionment using forward citation analysis for failure to show value of asserted patents in marketplace.

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Finjan, Inc. v. Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (I)

Court admits apportionment based on lines of infringing code and on value defendant places on product features in accused products but excludes apportionment using forward citation analysis for failure to show value of asserted patents in marketplace.