{"id":1087,"date":"2024-02-24T23:19:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T23:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onellp.com\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2024-02-26T23:50:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T23:50:57","slug":"federal-circuit-affirms-one-llp-jury-verdict-in-patent-case-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onellp.com\/federal-circuit-affirms-one-llp-jury-verdict-in-patent-case-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Circuit Affirms One, LLP. Jury Verdict in Patent Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Circuit on Tuesday upheld a California jury\u2019s finding that crosswalk signal maker Campbell Co. willfully infringed rival Polara Engineering\u2019s patent, but the appellate court erased a $1 million enhanced damages award after concluding it wasn\u2019t fully explained by the lower judge.<\/p>\n<p>The circuit panel agreed with the jury\u2019s June 2016 decision that Polara\u2019s patent wasn\u2019t invalidated by prior art or the fact that the company tested out the system publicly more than a year before submitting its patent application. But the panel took issue with U.S. District Judge Douglas F. McCormick\u2019s March 2017 decision to enhance the jury\u2019s $653,841 damage award by $1 million for willful infringement. The judge\u2019s decision lacked reasoning and also ignored the fact Campbell made a reasonable case for public use invalidation, Tuesday\u2019s precedential opinion said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Law360<\/em>\u00a0quotes \u201cThe district court awarded almost the maximum amount of enhanced damages, but did not adequately explain its basis for doing so, and failed to even mention Campbell\u2019s public use defense, which presented a close question in this case,\u201d the appellate panel wrote, remanding the case with instructions for the judge \u201cto provide a more complete explanation\u201d of the decision.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/1061621\/fed-circ-cuts-damages-in-crosswalk-signal-patent-case\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read\u00a0full article<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Circuit on Tuesday upheld a California jury\u2019s finding that crosswalk signal maker Campbell Co. willfully infringed rival Polara Engineering\u2019s patent, but the appellate court erased a $1 million&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/onellp.com\/federal-circuit-affirms-one-llp-jury-verdict-in-patent-case-4\/\">Continue Reading<span> Federal Circuit Affirms One, LLP. Jury Verdict in Patent Case<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onellp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onellp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onellp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onellp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onellp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onellp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1089,"href":"https:\/\/onellp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions\/1089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onellp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onellp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onellp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onellp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}