Patent Damages

This practical guide offers a clear framework for selecting and applying methodologies to quantify monetary remedies in patent infringement matters. Designed to streamline complexity, it helps ensure economic experts deliver reliable, well-supported damages analyses.

Topics covered include:

• Statutory provisions governing monetary relief
• Choice between lost profits and reasonable royalty methodologies
• The lost profits methodology
• The reasonable royalty methodology;
• Defendant's profit methodology for design patents
• Apportionment

This book also serves as a toolkit, providing additional information on financial and economic concepts related to patent infringement claims. Topics covered include:

• The income statement
• Generally accepted valuation approaches
• Discount rates
• Prejudgment interest
• The relationship between purchase price allocations and royalty rates