Tramon Devonte Mathis v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “[t]he attorney client privilege cannot be used as both a shield and a sword”
• holding that section 284 “‘commits the deter- mination’ whether enhanced damages are appropriate ‘to the discretion of the district court’”
• holding that 11 enhanced damages in patent infringement cases are punitive in nature and reserved for 12 “egregious infringement behavior,” including willful, wanton, malicious, bad-faith, 13 deliberate, or flagrant infringement
• holding that enhanced damages for patent infringement “are not to be meted out in a typical infringement case, but are instead designed as a ‘punitive’ or ‘vindictive’ sanction for egregious infringement behavior”
• holding that the statute governing patent infringement damages “allows district courts to punish the full range of culpable behavior” and that courts should “take into account the particular circumstances of each case in deciding whether to award damages”
• noting that a trial court’s discretion “has narrowed ... so that such damages are generally reserved for egregious cases of culpable behavior”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).