Monsanto Company v. Kem L. Ralph, (Individually and Doing Business as Ralph Brothers Farms)

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• noting that the “imposition on a patent owner who would not have licensed his invention for [a given] royalty is a form of compulsory license, against the will and interest of the person wronged, in favor of the wrongdoer”
• “[A]lthough an infringer's anticipated profit from use of the patented invention is ‘[a]mong the factors to be considered in determining’ a reasonable royalty . . . the law does not require that an infringer be permitted to make a profit.”
• \The jury's award of damages is entitled to deference[.]\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).