Published: 9/1/16
Publication: Essential Patent Blog
“Judge Payne recently denied defendant LG’s motion to exclude damages expert testimony on alleged standard essential patents (SEPs) where LG challenged the experts opinion (1) because he did not start with a royalty-rate that is then adjusted by applying Georgia-Pacific factors and (2) because he failed to apportion value to the patented feature given his reliance on the end product price. The patents-in-suit are alleged to be essential to the GSM, UMTS/HSPA and LTE cellular standards, but the parties disagreed whether the patents are SEPs and other patents-in-suit are not alleged to be SEPs.” [READ MORE]