Federal Circuit: WesternGeco Framework Controls In Cases With Foreign Damages

( March 28, 2024, 12:30 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D. C. — A federal judge in Illinois did not abuse her discretion in denying a patent owner a new damages trial, the Federal Circuit U. S. Court of Appeals ruled March 27, rejecting an appellant’s claim that it was entitled to recover hundreds of millions of dollars, not the $6,610,985 it was awarded, but that its efforts to be awarded a higher amount were thwarted when a defendant refused to elaborate on how it was counting infringements. . . .