East Texas Jury Returns Verdict for IPValue Plaintiffs in LCD Litigation

Last week, an Eastern District of Texas jury returned a verdict for 138 East LCD Advancements Limited and Longitude Licensing Limited, IPValue Management (d/b/a IPValue) plaintiffs, against BOE Technology. Four claims from three former Seiko Epson patents were found infringed and not proven invalid, the jury awarding a total of about $66.9M in damages and further indicating that the infringement found (for each patent) was proven willful. Roughly a week before the verdict, the court severed two “late-raised counterclaims” (of tortious interference with contract and tortious conspiracy to so interfere) into a separate action.