In one of the year’s first notable IP verdicts, a Delaware federal jury concluded last month that Symantec Corp. must pay $17 million to the patent licensing giant Intellectual Ventures for infringing two software technology patents. Not chump change, sure, but the award was considerably less then the $299 million Intellectual Ventures and its lawyers at Susman Godfrey originally sought.
Now it looks like Intellectual Ventures could get even less—or nothing at all, if Symantec’s lawyers at Latham & Watkins can convince the judge that the patents shouldn’t have been issued in the first place.
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