The largest award came out of the District of Delaware, which ordered Philips to pay Masimo $467 million for infringing patents covering technology used in fingertip devices that measure blood oxygen and pulse rates.
This followed the same court in January awarding Edwards LifeScience $394 million for Medtronic CoreValve for infringing patents covering a heart-valve device. The two companies later agreed to settle all global patent litigation in May, with Edwards LifeSciences paying a $750 million one-time payment and ongoing royalty payments.
Carnegie Melon University, ViaSatr, Alfred E Mann Foundation, WesternGeco, Apple and Power Integrations were also awarded damages of more than $100 million in 2014.
This compares with 2013 when two awards of more than $500 million were given. DuPont was ordered to pay $1 billion of damages to Monsanto in a GMO seed case. And Samsung was ordered to pay Apple $599 million in one of two large awards that year.
Managing IP will be publishing an in-depth look at the year in damages in early January.
Top damages awards 2014 |
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Rank |
Against |
Beneficiary |
Case |
Court |
Total damages |
|
1 |
Masimo Corporation |
Masimo Corporation v Philips Electronics North America Corporation |
DED |
$467m |
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2 |
Edwards Lifesciences |
Edwards Lifesciences v Medtronic Corevalve |
DED |
$394m |
||
3 |
Carnegie Mellon University |
Carnegie Mellon University v Marvell Technology Group |
PAWD |
$367m |
||
4 |
ViaSat |
Viasat v Space Systems/Loral |
CASD |
$283m |
||
5 |
Alfred E Mann Foundation For Scientific Research |
Alfred E Mann Foundation for Scientific Research v Cochlear Corporation |
CACD |
$131m |
||
6 |
Samsung Electronics |
Apple |
Apple v Samsung Electronics |
CAND |
$120m |
|
7 |
WesternGeco |
WesternGeco v ION Geophysical Corporation |
TXSD |
$115m |
||
8 |
Power Integrations |
Power Integrations v Fairchild Semiconductor International |
CAND |
$105m |
||
9 |
SimpleAir |
SimpleAir v Google |
TXED |
$85m |
||
10 |
Ultratec |
Ultratec v Sorenson Communications |
WIWD |
$44m |
Source: Docket Navigator