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Medtronic Vascular, Inc. et al. v. Boston Scientific Corp., et al. | Case No. 2-06-CV78-TJW |
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division | 5/27/2008
Holding: A jury sitting in a Texas district court found that Boston Scientific Corp. infringed three patents owned by Medtronic, Inc., and awarded Medtronic $250 million in damages. Specifically, the jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas found that Boston Scientific’s balloon catheter and stent delivery…
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No, 98-20451 JF, 2007 WL 1039290 |
N.D.Cal. | 1/31/2008
Holding: The jury issued a verdict in favor of plaintiff in this infringement suit for a patent relating to an “information processing system” and “inventory management system” used in the production of integrated circuits. Specifically, the jury found defendant liable for damages in the amount of $31,500,000 for lost sales and…
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No. SACV060706(DOC), 2007 WL 2456107 |
C.D.Cal. | 3/15/2007
Holding: In this patent infringement case, the parties agreed to settle their dispute. The patent in issue involved orthodontic bracket supports. Defendant TP Orthodontics, Inc. agreed to admit that it had infringed plaintiff 3M Innovative Properties Company’s patent, and to cease and desist from further committing acts of infringement. Defendant likewise…
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No. 3:05-cv-03560-MMC 2007 WL 2983099 |
N.D.Cal. | 6/25/2007
Holding: In this case involving patents relating to modular gas delivery technologies, the jury rendered a plaintiff’s verdict, awarding plaintiff Celerity, Inc. the sum of $13,900. According to Celerity, this amount was supposed to represent an 8 percent royalty rate on all sales of defendant Ultra Clean's Predator IGS (an integrated…
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3:05-cv-02715, 2007 WL 901634 |
N.D.Cal. | 2/5/2007
Holding: In this case for infringement of patent directed toward techniques for the manufacture of fire-resistant glazing glass products, plaintiff patentee and defendants entered into a settlement agreement that would pay plaintiff the sum of $1,000,000.00 in damages and that would make defendants refrain from further manufacturing and distributing glass products.
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C 02-03378, 2007 WL 1765179 |
N.D.Cal. | 5/17/2007
Holding: In this patent infringement suit over patents covering a method of transforming data in extract, transform, and load (“ETL”) process of building data warehouse through the use of “transformation objects,” a jury verdict was rendered in favor of plaintiff patent holder, and based on the findings that defendant indirectly infringed…
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02-CV-2060; 03-CV-0699; 03-CV-1108, 2007 WL 1039302 |
S.D.Cal. | 2/22/2007
Holding: In this infringement suit involving patents that were directed toward music coding that goes through a process so that musical compositions can be heard, or downloaded, from the computer, jury verdict was rendered in favor of patent holder (Lucent Technologies) against intervenor Microsoft, where the amount awarded reached $769,028,351.00 for…
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c 04 5429 cw, 2007 WL 686050 |
N.D.Cal. | 2/8/2007
Holding: In this infringement suit involving patents directed toward proteins used in growth hormone drugs for children with growth disorders, jury verdict was rendered in favor of plaintiffs which were awarded the sum of $7,500,000.00 in damages, and 15% to 20% of the revenues earned by defendants from the distribution of…
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