Tom Cotter

@thomascotter1.bsky.social

Taft Professor of Law, University of Minnesota

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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...

Damages for Industrial Property Infringement in France: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/10/dama...

30.10.2025 15:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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...

Judge Connolly on Willful Infringement: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/10/judg...

27.10.2025 14:48 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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...

The EWHC’s Ex Parte Order Against InterDigital: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

24.10.2025 00:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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 ...

Jüngst and Schroeder on Damages for Wrongly-Issue Preliminary Injunctions in the UPC: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/10/jung...

20.10.2025 16:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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),...

Merges on Lost Profits and Reasonable Royalties: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/10/merg...

16.10.2025 18:19 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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...

Harvard JOLT Issue on IP Remedies: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/10/harv...

14.10.2025 15:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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...

Bonadio and Solanki on Interim FRAND Licenses: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/10/bona...

09.10.2025 15:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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...

The UPC and Munich Anti-Interim License Injunctions: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

06.10.2025 13:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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...

UPC and Munich Courts Enter Anti-Interim License Injunctions: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/10/upc-...

03.10.2025 13:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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 ...

Federal Circuit Affirms Award of Nominal Damages: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/10/fede...

02.10.2025 17:53 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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...

2024 US-China Patent Valuation and Damages Workshop: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/09/2024...

26.09.2025 16:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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...

Bonadio, Kansara & Tayal on the Eu-China WTO Arbitration Panel Decision: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/09/bona...

24.09.2025 14:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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...

A Couple of New Articles on FRAND/SEPs: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-co...

12.09.2025 18:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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...

Hao on ACT v. OPPO: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/09/hao-...

08.09.2025 21:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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 ...

Recent Articles on Damages in China: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/09/rece...

05.09.2025 15:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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...

EWHC Rejects Request for Award of Profits for Ex Post Wrongly Issued Preliminary Injunction: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/09/ewhc...

01.09.2025 16:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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...

Paris Court of Appeal Denies Permanent Injunction on Proportionality Grounds: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/08/pari...

28.08.2025 19:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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 . ...

A Couple of New Articles on SEP Litigation in the UPC, Germany, and the UK: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-co...

25.08.2025 16:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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: ...

RJR’s Petition for Certiorari: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/08/rjrs...

21.08.2025 19:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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...

Two New Papers on China and FRAND: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/08/two-...

19.08.2025 15:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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 ...

Lex Machina Damage Award Litigation Report 2025: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/07/lex-...

31.07.2025 18:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Federal Circuit Directs District Court to Reconsider Expert Testimony in Light of EcoFactor This morning the Federal Circuit released a precedential decision in Jiaxing Super Lighting Electric Appliance Co. v. CH Lighting Techno...

Federal Circuit Directs District Court to Reconsider Expert Testimony in Light of EcoFactor: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/07/fede...

28.07.2025 15:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thoughts on the WTO Arbitration Panel’s Award in China-Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights I have now had a chance to read the arbitration award which, as I noted yesterday , reverses the initial decision of the WTO panel and find...

Thoughts on the WTO Arbitration Panel’s Award in China-Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/07/thou...

24.07.2025 17:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

WTO Arbitration Panel Finds China's Antisuit Injunction Policy in Violation of TRIPS On Monday, the WTO Arbitration Panel reversed the initial decision of the WTO panel, and found that China's antisuit injunction policy viola...

WTO Arbitration Panel Finds China's Antisuit Injunction Policy in Violation of TRIPS: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/07/wto-...

23.07.2025 14:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Van Dongen on Sustainable Destruction of Patent-Infringing Goods Lisa van Dongen has posted a paper on ssrn titled Sustainable Destruction of Patent Infringing Goods: An Oxymoron? (Hat tip to Jorge C...

Van Dongen on Sustainable Destruction of Patent-Infringing Goods: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/07/van-...

22.07.2025 15:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Two Important Developments out of Germany I may have more to say about these two matters next week, and I highly recommend that readers review Florian Mueller’s posts on ip fray (see...

Two Important Developments out of Germany: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/07/two-...

18.07.2025 21:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The UK IPO’s Consultation on SEPs As has been mentioned on a few other blogs recently (see here and here ), on Tuesday the UK’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO) releas...

The UK IPO’s Consultation on SEPs: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...

17.07.2025 16:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Teunissen on Proportionality Peter Teunissen has an article coming out soon in GRUR Int., titled Intellectual Property, Injunctions, and Proportionality: Towards a Uni...

Teunissen on Proportionality: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/07/teun...

15.07.2025 13:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Some Thoughts on Radian v. Samsung Radian Memory Systems LLC v. Samsung Electronics Co ., Civil Action No. 2:24-cv-1073 (E.D. Tex.)—a patent infringement action in which an NP...

Some Thoughts on Radian v. Samsung: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/07/some...

11.07.2025 14:06 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The EWHC’s Interim License Decision in Samsung v. ZTE While I was on vacation in late June, Mr. Justice Mellor handed down his decision in Samsung Elecs. Co. v. ZTE Corp. , [2025] EWHC 1432 (P...

The EWHC’s Interim License Decision in Samsung v. ZTE: comparativepatentremedies.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...

07.07.2025 14:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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