Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co.

*1017 ORDER RE: WILLFULNESS AND ENHANCED DAMAGES

Re: Dkt. Nos, 2186, 2191

On May 5, 2014, after a thirteen-day trial and approximately four days of deliberation, a jury in this patent case reached a verdict, which included a finding of willful infringement'of one of Apple’s patents, U.S. Patent No. 8,046,721 (the “ ’72l patent”). ECF No. 1884.' On May 23, 2014, Samsung filed a motion for judgment as:a matter of law and motion to amend the judgment. ECF No. 1896-3. On September 9, 2014, thé Court granted in part and denied in part Samsung’s motion for judgment as a matter of law. ECF No. 1965. As relevant here, the Court held that despite the jury verdict finding willful infringement, Samsung did not willfully infringe the ’721 patent as a matter of law under the standard set in In re Seagate Tech., LLC, 497 F.3d 1360 (Fed. Cir. 2007). On October 7, 2016, the Federal Circuit en bane upheld the judgment in the instant case, and remanded the issue of willful infringement in light of the United States Supreme Court’s intervening decision in Halo Electronics, Inc. v. Pulse Electronics, Inc., — U.S. -, 136 S.Ct. 1923 , 195 L.Ed.2d 278 (2016). ECF No. 2168; Apple Inc. v. Samsung Elecs.…