Perspective
Jul. 24, 2013
Defending willful patent infringement in 2013
A Federal Circuit decision last year changed the landscape of willful patent infringement litigation. See you California courts are handling the new landscape. By Robert Galvin and Leizel Ching
The potential threat of treble damages and attorney fees awards for willful patent infringement has always been a significant concern for companies accused of patent infringement, particularly since the willfulness determination was generally viewed as a factual question to be submitted to the jury.
The Federal Circuit's en banc decision last year in Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. v. W.I. Gore & Assocs., Inc...
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