Edward H. Rice

Edward H. Rice | Loeb & Loeb LLP

"Willful infringement." For years, these two words have struck fear in the hearts of corporate counsel. And for good reason: a willful infringement finding raises the already-high stakes in patent litigation to another level by opening the door to an enhanced damage award up to three times the...

Edward H. Rice, Marina N. Saito | Loeb & Loeb LLP

Introduction Although the current Patent Act was passed in 1952, and Congress created a specialized court of appeals for patent cases in 1982 (the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit), the Supreme Court rarely accepted a patent case until the late 1990s. In the past 10 years, patent...