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fromPatently-O
1 week ago

An Inexact Art: Willis Electric and the Limits of Damages Gatekeeping

For the past year, the Federal Circuit has been systematically tightening the screws on patent damages and particularly pro-patentee expert testimony on the issue. Beginning with EcoFactor, Inc. v. Google LLC, 137 F.4th 1333 (Fed. Cir. 2025), the court vacated a $20 million reasonable royalty award for insufficient apportionment. Then came Jiaxing Super Lighting Electric Appliance Co. v. CH Lighting Technology Co., 146 F.4th 1098 (Fed. Cir. 2025), where the court vacated another award and suggested (in dicta) that experts must quantify their Georgia-Pacific adjustments.
Intellectual property law
US politics
fromwww.npr.org
3 weeks ago

Trump officials propose testing a citizenship question amid a push to alter the census

Participants in the 2026 field test for the 2030 census may be asked about U.S. citizenship amid efforts to exclude noncitizens from apportionment counts and ongoing legal challenges.
US politics
fromwww.npr.org
7 months ago

Republicans renew a bid to remove noncitizens from the census tally behind voting maps

Republicans propose altering census counts by excluding noncitizens for electoral apportionment.
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