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Patent jury awards in 2020: Patent jury awards total $2.6 billion despite COVID-19 pandemic

Patent jury awards in 2020: Patent jury awards total $2.6 billion despite COVID-19 pandemic

This post attempts to collect and present patent jury verdicts rendered in 2020. Only jury awards are included (no bench awards, arbitration awards, settlements, etc.).

 

Figure 1: The median patent jury verdict in 2020 was $85,230,000. The low was $3,071,838 and the high was $837,801,178. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were only 13 noted patent verdicts in 2020.

 

Figure 2: The median patent jury verdict in 2020 increased 17 fold to $85,230,000 from $5,692,922 in 2019. This is the highest since Fedcirdamages started tracking in 2015. This is partially due to the small sample size of only 13 verdicts (due to COVID). But it is also notable that in 2020, there were 7 patent jury verdicts greater than $80,000,000 and 5 jury verdicts greater than $200,000,000.

 

Figure 3: Notwithstanding the COVID-19 pandemic, the total jury award in 2020 of $2,604M was the highest since 2016.

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Figure 4: These are the district courts with at least 2 patent jury verdicts in 2020. The Eastern District of Texas led the way with 5 verdicts. Notably, Eastern Texas had four jury verdicts rendered after the March shutdowns. No other district court had even one patent verdict from late March through the end of the year.

 

Figure 5: Median patent verdicts were high across the board. Still, the busier districts generally rendered higher verdicts.

 

Figure 6: Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were only 13 patent jury verdicts rendered in 2020. There were no verdicts related to Chemical, drug and medical, or mechanical patents. Notably, the median jury verdict for Computer and Communication patents was $169,814,693.