November 05, 2018
A California federal judge on Sunday doubled a 2014 jury award and ordered medical device company Cochlear Ltd. to pay more than $268 million in a lawsuit over a hearing-aid implant patent owned by the Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research, a medical research organization.
May 12, 2017
A medical research organization asked a California federal court on Thursday to find that Cochlear Corp. willfully infringed a hearing-aid implant patent, which it says should trigger a tripling of an embattled $131.2 million jury award.
March 30, 2017
A patent-holding research foundation asked a California federal judge to reinstate its $131.2 million jury award against Cochlear Corp. for infringing a hearing-aid implant patent, arguing Thursday that the royalty rate used in the verdict still applies because an appeals court found a patent claim valid.
April 01, 2015
A California federal judge overseeing the Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research's patent infringement suit against Cochlear Corp. on Tuesday ordered a new damages trial while invalidating some of the claims of the patents, creating a new twist following AMF's $131.2 million jury award last year.
February 13, 2015
There were eight intellectual property awards in 2014 that exceeded $100 million, all of them in patent cases, but attorneys say that many of those substantial sums are at risk of being reduced on appeal since the Federal Circuit has heightened its scrutiny of damages awards.
January 24, 2014
A California federal jury served Cochlear Ltd. with a $131.2 million verdict on Thursday, finding that the Australian-based company had infringed two patents related to technology for cochlear implants owned by the Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research.