Tom Cotter
@thomascotter1.bsky.social
Taft Professor of Law, University of Minnesota
Müller-Stoy and Lepschy on BSH v. Electrolux: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/11/mull...
Müller-Stoy and Lepschy on BSH v. Electrolux
Tilman Müller-Stoy and Paul Lepschy have published an article titled Practical Implications of BSH v Electrolux for resolving global patent ...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Müller-Stoy and Lepschy on BSH v. Electrolux: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/11/mull...
Conference on the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/11/conf...
Conference on the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive
Tomorrow and Friday, the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance at the University of Luxembourg will be presenting a conference titled Equali...
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November 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Conference on the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/11/conf...
Federal Circuit Vacates Lost Profits Award: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/11/fede...
Federal Circuit Vacates Lost Profits Award
The case is Inventist Inc. v. Ninebot Inc. (USA) , nonprecedential opinion (released last Friday) by Judge Dyk, joined by Judges Hughes and ...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Federal Circuit Vacates Lost Profits Award: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/11/fede...
EWCA Vacates Declaration of Interim License in Samsung v. ZTE: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/11/ewca...
EWCA Vacates Declaration of Interim License in Samsung v. ZTE
I was taking a blogging break ever since this decision was handed down on October 31, so I hadn’t written anything about it yet. By way ...
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November 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
EWCA Vacates Declaration of Interim License in Samsung v. ZTE: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/11/ewca...
Damages for Industrial Property Infringement in France: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/10/dama...
Damages for Industrial Property Infringement in France
Grégoire Desrousseaux, Mayeul Ottaviani, and Louis Jabert have published an article titled L’évaluation du prejudice de la contrefaçon d...
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October 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Damages for Industrial Property Infringement in France: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/10/dama...
Judge Connolly on Willful Infringement: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/10/judg...
Judge Connolly on Willful Infringement
U.S. District Court Judge Colm Connolly’s October 14 opinion in Inari Medical, Inc. v. Inquis Medical, Inc. , has received attention on both...
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October 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Judge Connolly on Willful Infringement: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/10/judg...
The EWHC’s Ex Parte Order Against InterDigital: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
The EWHC’s Ex Parte Order Against InterDigital
As noted here two weeks ago, following reports on ip fray, the Mannheim Local Division of the Unified Patent Court and the Munich Regio...
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October 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The EWHC’s Ex Parte Order Against InterDigital: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
Jüngst and Schroeder on Damages for Wrongly-Issue Preliminary Injunctions in the UPC: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/10/jung...
Jüngst and Schroeder on Damages for Wrongly-Issue Preliminary Injunctions in the UPC
I commend to readers’ attention an article by Oliver Jan Jüngst and Moritz Schroeder titled ֦ PI damages ֞ : Revocation of provisional ...
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October 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Jüngst and Schroeder on Damages for Wrongly-Issue Preliminary Injunctions in the UPC: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/10/jung...
Merges on Lost Profits and Reasonable Royalties: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/10/merg...
Merges on Lost Profits and Reasonable Royalties
Rob Merges’ paper Lost Profits and Reasonable Royalties: Two Distinct Remedies for Two Separate Harms , 40 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 323 (2025),...
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October 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Merges on Lost Profits and Reasonable Royalties: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/10/merg...
Harvard JOLT Issue on IP Remedies: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/10/harv...
Harvard JOLT Issue on IP Remedies
Volume 38, Issue 3 of the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology is titled “The Role of Intellectual Property Remedies in the Global Innovation...
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October 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Harvard JOLT Issue on IP Remedies: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/10/harv...
Bonadio and Solanki on Interim FRAND Licenses: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/10/bona...
Bonadio and Solanki on Interim FRAND Licenses
Enrico Bonadio and Arjun Solanki have just published The emergence of FRAND interim licences , 47 EIPR 592 (2025). The article provides an...
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October 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Bonadio and Solanki on Interim FRAND Licenses: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/10/bona...
The UPC and Munich Anti-Interim License Injunctions: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
The UPC and Munich Anti-Interim License Injunctions
As I noted on Friday, following reports elsewhere, the Mannheim Local Division of the Unified Patent Court and the Munich Regional Court b...
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October 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The UPC and Munich Anti-Interim License Injunctions: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
UPC and Munich Courts Enter Anti-Interim License Injunctions: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/10/upc-...
UPC and Munich Courts Enter Anti-Interim License Injunctions
This news broke yesterday on ip fray ( here and here ) and on IAM . The Mannheim Local Division of the UPC and the Munich Regional Court h...
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October 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
UPC and Munich Courts Enter Anti-Interim License Injunctions: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/10/upc-...
Federal Circuit Affirms Award of Nominal Damages: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/10/fede...
Federal Circuit Affirms Award of Nominal Damages
The case is Rex Medical, L.P. v. Intuitive Surgical, Inc. , precedential opinion by Judge Stoll, joined by Judges Dyk and Prost. Rex sued ...
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October 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Federal Circuit Affirms Award of Nominal Damages: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/10/fede...
2024 US-China Patent Valuation and Damages Workshop: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/09/2024...
2024 US-China Patent Valuation and Damages Workshop
A workshop report titled The 2024 Patent Valuation and Damages Workshop: A US-China Comparative Law Perspective is available on ssrn, and s...
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September 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
2024 US-China Patent Valuation and Damages Workshop: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/09/2024...
Bonadio, Kansara & Tayal on the Eu-China WTO Arbitration Panel Decision: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/09/bona...
Bonadio, Kansara & Tayal on the Eu-China WTO Arbitration Panel Decision
Although I (and others) have blogged about the July 2025 WTO arbitration award finding China’s antisuit injunction policy to be in violation...
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September 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Bonadio, Kansara & Tayal on the Eu-China WTO Arbitration Panel Decision: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/09/bona...
A Couple of New Articles on FRAND/SEPs: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-co...
A Couple of New Articles on FRAND/SEPs
1. Michael Nieder has published an article titled EPG-Widerklage auf gerichtliche Bestimmung einer angemessenen FRAND-Lizenz?—Zur Entsch...
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September 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
A Couple of New Articles on FRAND/SEPs: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-co...
Hao on ACT v. OPPO: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/09/hao-...
Hao on ACT v. OPPO
As a follow-up to my post on Friday , which noted among other things a recent paper by Zhang Guangliang and Geng Bang titled An Active Exp...
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September 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Hao on ACT v. OPPO: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/09/hao-...
Recent Articles on Damages in China: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/09/rece...
Recent Articles on Damages in China
Two recent articles in the Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property may be of interest to readers who follow developments in Chinese ...
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September 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Recent Articles on Damages in China: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/09/rece...
EWHC Rejects Request for Award of Profits for Ex Post Wrongly Issued Preliminary Injunction: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/09/ewhc...
EWHC Rejects Request for Award of Profits for Ex Post Wrongly Issued Preliminary Injunction
The question of whether, or under what circumstances, a patentee who obtains an ex post wrongly issued preliminary injunction—that is, a p...
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September 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
EWHC Rejects Request for Award of Profits for Ex Post Wrongly Issued Preliminary Injunction: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/09/ewhc...
Paris Court of Appeal Denies Permanent Injunction on Proportionality Grounds: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/08/pari...
Paris Court of Appeal Denies Permanent Injunction on Proportionality Grounds
I’ve been catching up on some back issues of the European IP journals, and so I am a little late reporting on this decision, which was han...
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August 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Paris Court of Appeal Denies Permanent Injunction on Proportionality Grounds: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/08/pari...
A Couple of New Articles on SEP Litigation in the UPC, Germany, and the UK: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-co...
A Couple of New Articles on SEP Litigation in the UPC, Germany, and the UK
1. Matthias Leistner has posted a paper on ssrn titled The first SEP/FRAND decisions on the merits of the UPC—an overview in context . ...
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August 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
A Couple of New Articles on SEP Litigation in the UPC, Germany, and the UK: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-co...
RJR’s Petition for Certiorari: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/08/rjrs...
RJR’s Petition for Certiorari
While I was away earlier this month, R.J. Reynolds Vapor Company filed a petition for certiorari presenting the following two questions: ...
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August 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
RJR’s Petition for Certiorari: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/08/rjrs...
Two New Papers on China and FRAND: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/08/two-...
Two New Papers on China and FRAND
1. Mark A. Cohen has published China’s Many Faces of FRAND , 47 EIPR 418 (2025). Here is the abstract: China has become a major dest...
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August 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Two New Papers on China and FRAND: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/08/two-...
Lex Machina Damage Award Litigation Report 2025: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/07/lex-...
Lex Machina Damage Award Litigation Report 2025
I was alerted to the publication of Lex Machina’s Damage Award Litigation Report 2025 by an articlein Law360 earlier this week , and have ...
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July 31, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Lex Machina Damage Award Litigation Report 2025: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/07/lex-...