The Empire State Buildings dazzling colour show. We begin with the christmas se celebrations at home and around the square. Thousands flock to listen to the popes christmas message. He urged people not to help with the suffering of others. Translation i ask him, the saviour of the world today to look upon our brothers and sisters in iraq and syria, who for too long suffered the effect of ongoing conflict and who, together with those belonging to ethnic groups are suffering a brutal persecution. May christmas bring them hope. In england Queen Elizabeth had a similar message of reconciliation. She was moved by the sacrifice of aid workers who risked their lives to help others. Bringing reconciliation to wars or emergency homes is a harder task. I have been touched by the selflessness of aid workers and medical volunteers who have gone abroad to help victims of conflict, or diseases like ebola, often at great personal risk. 268 miles above the planet there was an out of this world christm
In patent litigation, the adequacy of proof of apportionment in reasonable royalty damage claims is often a challenging issue that is hotly contested by the parties. The Federal Circuit.
In
Vectura, the Federal Circuit recently reiterated that the entire market value of an accused multicomponent product may serve as the royalty base if the patent damages analysis is built on sufficiently comparable licenses.
Vectura Limited v. Glaxosmithkline LLC, 981 F.3d 1030, 1040-1042 (Fed. Cir. 2020). Pursuit of the entire market value of a multicomponent product ordinarily requires the patentee to demonstrate that the infringing feature drives customer demand for the product.
Virnetx, Inc. v. Cisco Sys., Inc., 767 F.3d 1308, 1326 (Fed. Cir. 2014). Without such evidence, the patentee must apportion down either the royalty base or the royalty rate to account for the difference between the patented features and the conventional features of the accused product.