Legal Opinion
Finisar Corp. v. DirecTV Group, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided April 18, 2008No. 2007-1023, 2007-1024PublishedCited by 239 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RADER, Circuit Judge.
By a jury verdict, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas found that The DirecTV Group, Inc., DirecTV Holdings, LLC, DirecTV Enterprises, LLC, DirecTV Operations, LLC, and DirecTV, Inc. (collectively DirecTV) had infringed U.S. Patent No. 5,404,505 (the '505 patent), assigned to Finisar Corporation (Finisar). Finding DirecTV’s infringement to have been willful, the jury awarded $78.9 million in reasonable royalty damages. The district court sustained the jury’s verdict, except with respect to induced and contributory infringement, denied…
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