A federal judge has ruled the $1.2 billion verdict Carnegie Mellon University won in a dispute over technological patents should be bumped up to $1.5 billion.
U.S. District Judge Nora Barry Fischer of the Western District of Pennsylvania tacked on enhanced damages and supplemental damages to the original jury verdict from 2012, although she didn’t increase the damages as much as Carnegie Mellon had asked. Fischer called the issue of enhanced damages “the ‘elephant in the room’ between the parties,” noting that it is “contested on all fronts.”
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