At the U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Western Geco v. Ion<\/i>, a case about expanding the damages for infringing a U.S. patent to include foreign lost profits, a heated and far-ranging debate ensued.\u00a0 Earlier, some amici curiae had stressed the huge stakes at issue.\u00a0 For instance, Fairchild Semiconductor joined forces with The Internet Association, arguing that allowing lost profits damages from outside the U.S. \u201cwould have negative fallout for economic policy, U.S. commerce, and foreign relations.\u201d\u00a0 Even the \u201cthreat [of such damages] would encourage important industries to relocate abroad,\u201d they claimed.<\/p>\n
In late June, the Court disposed of the matter with an opinion from Justice Thomas.\u00a0 This webinar will focus on the impact of this decision on patent litigation strategy, as well as client counseling.\u00a0 The Court\u2019s decision overturned decades of Federal Circuit precedent by holding that Western Geco\u2019s<\/i> award for lost profits was a permissible domestic application of \u00a7 284.\u00a0 Our panel includes the chief IP counsel for a major multinational; the former head of patents at Microsoft who is now with a law firm where he focuses on strategic IP counseling, IP transactions, and license agreements; and a patent litigator who has been involved in these issues for years on behalf of a patent owner. They will discuss:<\/p>\n Speakers:<\/p>\n At the U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Western Geco […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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