A San Jose jury decided Thursday that the Taiwanese smartphone maker violated a microprocessor patent and awarded patent holders Technology Properties Limited and Patriot Scientific Corp. $958,560 in damages. However, in a partial win for HTC and its lawyers at Cooley, the jury found HTC neither infringed the patent willfully nor induced infringement and awarded just a fraction of what its adversaries had sought to recoup.
Despite the shrunken award, James Otteson, lead lawyer for Technology Properties and Patriot, cheered the verdict, which comes after a roughly week-long trial before U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal in San Jose.
