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Carnegie Mellon University v. Marvell Technology Group, Ltd, No. 14-1492 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 4, 2015)

Affirmed in Part
Infringement Damages Willfulness Doctrine of Equivalents
Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Case No.
No. 14-1492
Decided
August 4, 2015
Judge
Taranto, J.
Document
Precedential Opinion
Length
46 pages

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Carnegie Mellon University (“CMU”) sued Marvell Technology Group, Ltd. and Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. (collectively “Marvell”) for infringing two patents related to hard- disk drives . A jury found for CMU on infring e- ment and validity, and it awarded roughly $1.17 billion as a reasonable royalty for the infringing acts, using a rate of 50 cents for each of certain semiconductor chips sold by Marvell for use in hard -disk drives .

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