The Dow Chemical Company v. Mee Industries, Inc. And Florida Power Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a district court is obligated to award damages once infringement is found, and reversing a finding of no damages that was based upon a lack of expert evidence
• noting that a district court is obli- gated to award damages once infringement is found, and reversing a finding of no damages that was based upon a lack of expert evidence
• explaining that Section 284 “is clear that expert testimony is not necessary to the award of damages, but rather ‘may [be] receive[d] ... as an aid’”
• reversing award of no damages, which was based upon a lack of admissible expert evi- dence, and remanding for determination of royalty
• reversing award of no damages, which was based upon a lack of admissible expert evidence, and remanding for determination of royalty
• “The statute is unequivocal that the district court must award damages in an amount no less than a reasonable royalty.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).