Chapter Ten – Remedies

Several remedies are available to patentees, including injunctions, compensatory damages, enhanced damages, and attorney’s fees.  The recent eBay and Seagate cases signaled substantial changes in this area of the law, and injunctions, enhanced damages, and attorney’s fees are now more difficult for patentees to obtain than they were historically.  The full impact of the eBay case is not yet known, however, and the district courts and the Federal Circuit continue to determine the contours of the law.

 

• See 35 USC 281-297
• BIC Leisure Prods. v. Windsurfing Int’l, 1 F.3d 1214 (Fed. Cir.1993)
  • Re-issue Patent 31,167
• Crystal Semiconductor v. Tritech Microelectronics Int’l, 246 F.3d 1336 (Fed. Cir.1993)
  • Patent 4,746,899
  • Patent 5,220,483
  • Patent 4,851,841
• Grain Processing v. American Maize-Products, 185 F.3d 1341 (Fed. Cir.1999)
  • Patent 3,849,194
• Promega v. Lifecodes, 53 USPQ2d 1463 (D.Utah 1999)
  • Patent 4,963,663
• Rite-Hite v. Kelley, 53 F.3d 1538 (Fed. Cir.1995) (en banc)
  • Patent 4,373,847
    
• John L. Rie v. Shelly Bros., 366 F.Supp. 84 (E.D.PA 1973)
  • Patent 3,002,240
• eBay v. MercExchange, 547 U.S. 388 (2006)
  • Patent 5,845,265
• Paice v. Toyota, 504 F.3d 1293 (Fed. Cir. 2007)
  • Patent 5,343,970
• Sanofi-Syntholabo v. Apotex, 470 F.3d 1368 (Fed. Cir. 2006)
  • Patent 4,847,265
    
• Polaroid v. Eastman Kodak, 228 USPQ 305 (D.Mass.1985)
  • Patent 3,761,269
  • Patent 3,757,657
  • Patent 3,362,821
  • Patent 3,245,789
  • Patent 3,689,262
  • Patent 3,578,540
  • Patent 3,709,122
  • Patent 3,753,392
  • Patent 3,810,211
  • Patent 3,810,220
  • Patent 3,770,439
• In re Seagate Technology, 497 F.3d 1360 (Fed. Cir. 2007) (en banc)
  • Patent 4,916,635
    
  • Patent 5,638,267
    
  • Patent 6,314,473