It took a Tyler jury one hour and fifty minutes to render a verdict in the first of the two Bedrock cases scheduled to be tried in Judge Davis' court this month - this one against Google. Friday afternoon the jury returned a verdict that both asserted claims were infringed, neither were proven by a preponderance of the evidence to be invalid, and set damages at $5,000,000.
For the fourth time in the past five ED patent trials, the plaintiff voluntarily chose to lower the burden from the current "clear and convincing" standard to obviate the appellate issue should the Supreme Court change the law on this point in i4i v. Microsoft.
