Opinion ID: 212115
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: Refusal to Enhance Damages

Text: 47 Fuji, in its cross appeal, asks this court to find that the district court abused its discretion in refusing to enhance damages for the refurbished LFFPs and accordingly seeks a remand. Fuji does not, however, appeal the district court's refusal to enhance damages for the newly-made LFFP sales that the jury found to constitute willful infringement. Jazz responds that the district court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to enhance damages for the refurbished LFFPS, particularly where the jury found that the refurbished LFFP sales did not constitute willful infringement. 48 More specifically, Fuji contends that Jazz's failure to investigate its refurbished LFFP sales after the ITC issued its initial determination supports a finding of bad faith infringement that is a type of willful infringement. See Jurgens v. CBK, Ltd., 80 F.3d 1566, 1572 (Fed.Cir.1996). The district court did not permit Fuji to reference the ITC infringement determination during the jury trial in order to avoid prejudicing Jazz. Although Fuji does not contest the district court's evidentiary ruling, it believes that the district court should have considered Jazz's lack of investigation after the ITC initial determination in its enhanced damages analysis. 49 Fuji has narrowly tailored its enhanced damages cross-appeal to contest damages accruing from Jazz's infringing sales between 1999 and 2001. As Fuji itself points out, the district court did not address the refurbished LFFP sales in its enhanced damages analysis, most likely because the jury did not find these sales willful. Rather, the district court considered the newly-made LFFP sales that the jury deemed willful infringement. While Fuji complains that the district court failed in its analysis, it does not point to any support in the record where it either requested the district court to consider the ITC determination in the enhanced damages inquiry or, in the alternative, to reconsider the jury finding that the refurbished LFFP sales were not willful. Fuji cannot expect the district court to consider sua sponte all factors in its favor absent Fuji's urging to do so. The district court did not abuse its discretion in its refusal to enhance damages. 50 On the whole, the nature of Fuji's enhanced damages cross-appeal strikes this court as a new argument that was not raised with any specificity below. Had Fuji put the trial court on notice that it sought enhanced damages for the refurbished LFFPs under its bad faith theory, the district court would have undoubtedly addressed this argument. That there is no discussion whatsoever is conspicuous given the careful and thorough analysis of the district court's opinion. This court therefore declines Fuji's request to remand so that it can refine the arguments it should previously have made. Sage Prods., Inc. v. Devon Indus., Inc., 126 F.3d 1420, 1426 (Fed.Cir.1997) ([A]ppellate courts do not consider a party's new theories, lodged first on appeal. If a litigant seeks to show error in a trial court's overlooking an argument, it must first present that argument to the trial court. In short, this court does not `review' that which was not presented to the district court.).