In the wake of a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit curbing high patent damages awards, a new PricewaterhouseCoopers study reports elevated damages spur U.S. patent litigants to seek jury trials.
The 2010 Patent Litigation Study examined patent litigation trends from 1995 to 2009. The median damages award was about $9 million in 2009, near the high end of median damages awarded during the study years. The median damages ranged from $2.4 million to $10.5 million in 2009 dollars, showing no aggregate damages trend.
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