Abat v. Buisson

How courts have described this case

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• enhancement of 20% where the case did “not rise to the level of egregiousness that warrants treble damages, but instead presents a lesser degree of egregiousness consistent with precedent”
• “The first Read factor does not focus on whether Defendants copied the [asserted] patent itself, but whether they copied the ‘ideas or design’ of Plaintiff's [invention]—which could have occurred before the [asserted] patent issued.”
• five-year duration is significant and favors enhancement

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