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Intellectual Property

Dec. 5, 2015

Judge must reconsider $16M infringement award

Federal Circuit rules WLAN patent was industry standard, a win for numerous tech companies.

By Saul Sugarman
Daily Journal Staff Writer

A federal judge must reconsider and likely lower roughly $16 million worth of infringement damages awarded to a research arm of the Australian government because it is an industry standard patent, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled Thursday.

The decision is a blow for Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, or CSIRO, which won the verdict against Cisc...

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