Vazquez-Velazquez v. PR Highway and Transportation Authority

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How courts have described this case

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

• holding that evidence of royalty rates from licenses without a relationship to the claimed invention could not form the basis of a reasonable royalty calculation
• acknowledging that \hypothetical reasonable royalty calculation occurs before litigation and that litigation itself can skew the results of the hypothetical negotiation\
• criticizing damages expert for relying on licenses that showed no “discernible link to the claimed technology”
• finding expert’s opinion calculating damages based on “used licenses with no relationship to the claimed invention” and no “discernible link to the claimed technology” to be inadmissible.
• discussing Georgia-Pacific Corp. v. U.S. Plywood Corp., 318 F. Supp. 116 (S.D.N.Y. 1970)
• “[T]he trial court must carefully tie proof of damages to the claimed invention’s footprint in the market place.”

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