Intellectual Property
Apr. 3, 2015
Judge overturns $131.2 million patent award after invalidating most claims
A Los Angeles federal judge has tossed one of last year's largest patent trial awards and ordered a new trial on damages after invalidating three of four patent claims asserted by the Alfred E. Mann Foundation.




Daily Journal Staff Writer
A Los Angeles federal judge has tossed one of last year's largest patent trial awards and ordered a new trial on damages after invalidating three of four patent claims asserted by the Alfred E. Mann Foundation.
The Valencia-based nonprofit medical research organization had won a $131.2 million verdict against Australian company Cochlear Ltd. in January 2014 after jurors found that Cochlear willfully...
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