Google outlines legal strategy in Oracle expert challenge
BVLaw Alert has blogged a couple of times about Oracle America, Inc. v. Google Inc., on the Java code allegedly found in Android software and on Google strategy. Oracle hired Boston University professor Iain Cockburn—the extensively published academic—to calculate and prove the alleged damages. Our reading of Google’s pre-Daubert challenge filing indicates that they will attack his credentials. For [...]
Supreme Court affirms “clear and convincing” standard in i4i-Microsoft case
The legal battle that began some 8 years ago between i4i and Microsoft ended Monday, July 6th at the Supreme Court. In 2003 a federal jury awarded $290 million to i4i, finding that Microsoft’s versions of Word (its word processing application) had infringed i4i’s patent (Patent No. 5,787,449) relating to text manipulation software. i4i’s claim [...]
Supreme Court hears ‘most important patent case of the decade’
Appraisers may recall the $290 million verdict that a small Canadian software provider won against mega-co Microsoft back in 2009. (See BVWire #85-1) After losing its 2010 appeal of the damages award to the U.S. Court of Appeals for Federal Circuit, Microsoft took its case to the Supreme Court. (For the complete digest of both [...]
Patent litigation study shows larger damage awards
PricewaterhouseCoopers’s annual PwC’s 2010 Patent Litigation Study, based on the firm’s database of patent damages awards from 1980 through 2009, shows “patent holders are winning considerable awards of damages as US patent trial success rates near their highest level in history. The largest ever patent damages award of over $1.8 billion was issued in 2009, [...]
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