Design Patent Infringement Damages May be Based on Infringer's Profits from Individual Product Components: Supreme Court | Practical Law
In Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. v. Apple Inc., the US Supreme Court held that under 35 U.S.C. § 289, an article of manufacture includes individual components of a multi-component product consumers purchase, reversing the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's $399 million damage award to Apple, Inc.