Wang Laboratories, Inc. v. Oki Electric Industry Co.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “[m]onies received as a settlement for past tortious use of patents are not the equivalent of royalties”
• noting that “there is authority to the effect that the concepts of both royalty and license are necessarily prospective, rendering a ‘retroactive royalty agreement’ a legal nullity”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).