Wordtech Systems, Inc. v. Integrated Networks Solutions, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that a “defendant’s liability for indirect infringement must relate to ... identified instances of direct infringement”
• stating that “the ‘corporate veil’ shields a company’s officers from personal liability for direct infringement that the officers commit in the district court subsequently granted a judgment notwithstanding the verdict (“JNOV”
• prohibiting jury verdicts to stand if they are “clearly not supported by the evidence” or “based only on speculation or guesswork” (citation omitted)
• rejecting the use of prior licenses where “[njeither license describe[d] how the parties calculated each lump sum, the licensees’ intended products, or how many products each licensee expected to produce”
• reiterating the holding of Manville that corporate officers can be held 16 personally liable “regardless of whether the circumstances are such that a court should disregard 17 the corporate entity and pierce the corporate veil”
• the corporate veil shields a company’s officers from personal liability for direct infringement that the officers commit in the name of the corporation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).