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Michel on Jaffe/Lerner

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

The 271Blog has excerpts from a past speech by Judge Michel which include:

And Professors Jaffee and Lerner, who are very highly qualified economists, wrote in their book, which many of you read, that the courts often give double damages and actually cited a case that I was involved in as an example of double damages, and they said that I gave both lost profit damage and reasonable royalty damages to the winning patentee. Well, yeah, the Court did. Of course it did, because it was for different products and different time ranges, two different forms of damages, but they weren't -- but that's not double payment. That's paying once, so there's a lot of misunderstanding out there.

Full post as published by IPBiz on May 24, 2009 (boomark / email).