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Bargaining Power and Patent Damages

J. Gregory Sidak

In patent-infringement litigation, if no established royalty for the patent in suit has emerged from multiple market transactions at a readily observable price, then the finder of fact needs to infer a reasonable royalty from the many factors identified in the Georgia-Pacific framework. The well-recognized problem with the Georgia-Pacific framework is that it poses many potentially relevant questions but does not say how the finder of fact should weight the answers. The case law offers no algorithm or decision tree for the finder of fact to follow.... Read more about Bargaining Power and Patent Damages

  • July 12, 2015
  • 19 Stan. Tech. L. Rev. 1