Apple Inc. v. Qualcomm Inc.
If the injury is speculative or the outcome of a validity/infringement suit would otherwise have no effect on contract rights (e.g., royalty payments), no standing exists.
If the injury is speculative or the outcome of a validity/infringement suit would otherwise have no effect on contract rights (e.g., royalty payments), no standing exists.
To recover pre-suit damages for an unmarked patented article, the patentee must provide actual or constructive notice to the infringer.
Litigation alone is not substantial investment in a licensing program to satisfy the domestic industry requirement of § 337 at the time of filing an ITC complaint.
There is no equitable doctrine of marking estoppel in patent law. Improper marking, however, may constitute a rebuttable extrajudicial admission that an article is covered by a patent.
In determining a RAND royalty rate for a patent essential to the implementation of an industry standard, a court may consider a hypothetical bilateral negotiation under the obligations of the RAND commitment and that patent’s importance to both the standard and resulting products.
In order to “pry open to competition” in a market closed by antitrust violations, an order for mandatory, nondiscriminatory sales (in the form of reasonable-royalty licensing) to all bona fide applicants may be appropriate relief.