Opinion ID: 210343
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Damages and Injunction

Text: Since I would affirm the district court's judgments on infringement and validity, I would not disturb the jury's determination of damages nor the district court's permanent injunction. Further, even when this court reverses a district court's finding of infringement and/or validity as to some, but not all, of the patents-in-suit, we do not necessarily need to vacate and remand the damages award. When, as here, the evidence shows that each of the accused products infringes all of the patents-in-suit, and the infringer fails to make any showing on appeal that the damages award would not be supported by only those patents for which we affirm liability, we must affirm the damages despite our reversal of part of the infringer's liability. Remanding simply to reconfirm that the damages award is indeed supported by the affirmed liability under the remaining patents-in-suit imposes unnecessary costs on litigants and wastes judicial resources. Therefore, we should affirm the jury's determination of Verizon's damages even assuming that the claims of the '880 patent were improperly construed.