Intellectual Property
Jul. 30, 2009
One Among Many
In some patent cases, jurors lack the necessary context to evaluate the contribution of a specific invention, writes David Bohrer.
The feature that drives demand for Microsoft's Outlook is e-mail, right?
Not according to a Southern California jury, which recently awarded Lucent a $358 million royalty for the use of its date-picker tool in Outlook's calendar. Lucent successfully applied the entire market value rule, which allows recovery based on the value of an entire product (Outlook) containing numerous features not all covered by the patent, w...
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