On High Court Remand, Federal Circuit Remands Lost Profits Patent Case

Mealey's (January 14, 2019, 11:17 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Citing an intervening invalidation by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of four of six asserted claims in an underlying patent dispute on remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Jan. 11 remanded the dispute to a Texas federal judge for a new determination of lost profits potentially due to a patent owner (WesternGeco LLC v. ION Geophysical Corp., Nos. 2013-1527, 14-1121, 14-1526, 14-1528, Fed. Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 998)....