Federal Circuit Resists Samsung’s ‘Quest for Apportionment’

Business Valuation UpdateVol. 21 No. 7
Legal and Court Case Update
July 2015
4813 Telephone Communications, Except Radiotelephone
334220 Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing
intellectual property
damages, lost profits, patent infringement, expert testimony, causation, reasonable royalty, apportionment, non-infringing alternative

Apple, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co. (V)
2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 8096
May 18, 2015
US
Federal Court
Federal Circuit
United States Court of Appeals
Terry Musika, Julie L. Davis (plaintiff); Michael Wagner (defendants)
Probst

Summary

Federal Circuit rejects Samsung’s call for apportioning damages related to design patent infringement, saying the proposed treatment would conflict with the express language of the applicable statute; court upholds most of $1 billion award to Apple.

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Apple, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co. (V)

Federal Circuit rejects Samsung’s call for apportioning damages related to design patent infringement, saying the proposed treatment would conflict with the express language of the applicable statute; court upholds most of $1 billion award to Apple.