Damages Opinion Based on Composite Royalty Rate Excluded as Unreliable

The court granted in part defendants' motion to exclude the testimony of plaintiffs' damages expert because his royalty base was based on a composite rate. "Defendants explain that to reach his damages calculation, [the expert] applies a royalty base that includes units accused under any asserted patent to a royalty rate with contributions from every asserted patent. . . . I do not believe that use of a composite rate is consistent with Federal Circuit case law. . . . [The expert's] royalty rate assigns to each accused product the same per-unit royalty regardless of how many patents that product is accused of infringing. Thus, his analysis results in a damages calculation that overcompensates Plaintiffs and does not appropriately reflect the inventions' footprints in the marketplace."

MiiCs & Partners, America, Inc. et al v. Funai Electric Co., Ltd. et al, 1-14-cv-00804 (DED December 7, 2017, Order) (Andrews, USDJ)