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· 3/12/2024

In Re Whelan Security Co. D/B/A Gardaworld Security Services v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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  • recognizing that “eBay abolishes our general rule that an injunction normally will issue when a patent is found to have been valid and infringed”
  • holding that plaintiff did not need to provide direct evidence to make prima facie showing of lost market share
  • noting that the patentee bears the burden of showing lost market share, although it need not do so with direct evidence
  • stating that “the absence of a two-supplier market does not weigh against a finding of irreparable harm”
  • stating that courts should not “entirely ignore the fundamental nature of patent as property rights granting the owner the right to exclude”
  • noting that a clear error of judgment occurs when an action is “arbitrary, fanciful, or clearly unreasonable”

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