SGE... Sit down please...
What I suspect is happening, which would explain the elapsed time, is that the jury is making a determination on each and every claim of each asserted patent as to whether each one either is infringed or not. They may be doing this piece meal as per a required process...
I agree.. I'm not quite ready yet to state they are doing it for damages per say (tho I suppose that could/would be the ultimate outcome.. X).. but the claims build upon each other.. (from Final Verdict Form)
I. U.S. Patent No. 5,809,336 (“the ’336 patent”)
A. Infringement
1. Literal Infringement
1. Do you find that TPL has proven by a preponderance of the evidence that HTC has literally
infringed any of the following claims of the ’336 patent?
You can only find claims 7 or 9 infringed if you previously found claim 6 infringed. You can only find claims 14 or 15 infringed if you previously found claim 13 infringed.
best of luck to us all today
