Judge Finds No UCL Violation, Orders 3 Defendants To Pay $8M For Infringements

(December 11, 2020, 6:37 AM EST) -- SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A federal judge in California on Nov. 17 ordered an attorney and two entities to pay a doctor and his practice $7.9 million in damages and statutory damages of $150,000 after finding them jointly and severally liable for patent infringement and copyright infringement of the plaintiff doctor’s pulsed insulin diabetes treatment method but found that the plaintiffs failed to provide evidence of damages under California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and false advertising law (FAL) (Thomas Aoki, et al. v. Gregory Ford Gilbert, et al., No. 11-2797, E.D. Calif., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 215130)....