Tag: total profits

A few weeks back, I outlined some of the problems created when design patent law is interpreted in negative ways.  One particular issue? The negative incentives created if the article of manufact...

Yesterday, after almost four days of deliberation, the Apple v. Samsung jury decided Samsung owed Apple over $500 million of Samsung’s profits.   Faced with an artificial and unsound test, the jur...

Apple v. Samsung is obviously about high tech smartphones.  Other recent design patent cases have focused on high tech products as well—both the Nikola v. Tesla case Patent Progress covered recentl...

Opening arguments in Apple v. Samsung started this morning.  While round six of the long-running case deals with smartphone patents, the potential impacts range much further.  As I noted in ...