WilmerHale's William Lee and Stanford Law School's Mark Lemley say the reversal of a $20 million patent judgment against Google should encourage other courts to verify that damages are grounded in patents' actual values.
Patents are a mutually beneficial agreement between inventors and the government. Each side makes concessions in service of their own, and the greater, good. It's a careful balance, where policy and rules that are too permissive or too restrictive of inventors' rights reduce the societal value of patents.
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Originally published by Bloomberg Law on the 18nth of July, 2025.
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