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Rejection of remittitur could come back to haunt patent owner during retrial

By Melissa Ritti ( November 14, 2024, 18:08 GMT | Insight) -- GeigTech East Bay and Lutron Electronics Co. will convene in a US court this afternoon for a status conference in advance of a retrial planned for Monday on damages owed for Lutron’s infringement of a window shade bracket patent. A jury in March awarded GeigTech more than ten times the amount it requested, leading the court to offer a choice: remittitur or try the issue of damages again. GeigTech elected the latter, and earlier this week, was sanctioned in connection with a botched attempt to change its damages theory at the eleventh hour.A “secret plan” by a patent owner to recapture a windfall verdict rendered in March by scrapping its prior damages theory and presenting new testimony at a retrial next week have landed with a thud....

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