In a case reinstating a patent infringement verdict against Microsoft but tossing the jury’s damages award, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejected a widely used damages calculation rule. The court found that Microsoft infringed a Uniloc USA patent, but it called the jury’s original $388 million damages award “fundamentally tainted” by legally inadequate methodology.
The unanimous Jan. 4 panel ruling in Uniloc USA Inc. v. Microsoft Corp. reversed a September 2009 ruling by the District of Rhode Island, which had vacated an April 2009 infringement verdict for Uniloc.
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