Expert’s Apportionment Cannot Save Flawed Royalty Calculation

Business Valuation UpdateVol. 19 No. 3
Legal and Court Case Update
March 2013
3577 Computer Peripheral Equipment, NEC
334118 Computer Terminal and Other Computer Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing
intellectual property

Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. v. A10 Networks, Inc. (I)
2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 8113
January 10, 2013
US
Federal Court
California
United States District Court
James Malackowski (plaintiffs); Elizabeth Dean (defendants)
Grewal

Summary

District court vacates patent damages because of expert’s use of the entire market value for reasonable royalty calculation, where the patented features did not drive consumer demand; apportionment of damages between the product’s patented and unpatented ...

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Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. v. A10 Networks, Inc. (I)

District court vacates patent damages because of expert’s use of the entire market value for reasonable royalty calculation, where the patented features did not drive consumer demand; apportionment of damages between the product’s patented and unpatented ...