Summit 6, LLC v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., No. 13-1648 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 21, 2015)

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This appeal is from a final judgment entered on a jury verdict in a patent case. T he jury found the asserted claims of U.S. Patent No. 7,765,482 (“the ’482 patent”) not invalid and infringed. The jury awarded Appellee -Cross Appellant Summit 6 , LLC (“Summit”) $15 million in damages. The parties raise various issues relating to the proper legal framework for evaluating rea sonable royalty damages in the patent infringement context.