Cisco Will Have to Pay Enhanced Damages to SRI, Court Says

SRI International won its appeals court bid to reinstate enhanced damages for Cisco’s intentional infringement of a hacker-security patent.

• The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found that “substantial evidence supports the jury’s finding of willful infringement after May 8, 2012,” when Cisco learned of the SRI patent
• The case, first filed in 2013, has bounced between a trial court in Delaware and the Federal Circuit
• The issue on appeal was whether SRI was entitled to a doublingof the $23.7 million damage award based on the jury finding that Cisco’s infringement was intentional
• SRI research, funded ...