Patent infringement matter involving online travel industry competitors

Patent infringement matter involving online travel industry competitors

We were engaged by outside counsel for three companies in the online travel industry, two of which are large publicly traded companies.  Our work consisted of rebutting the opposing damages expert’s reports, reviewing a number of settlement and license agreements, assessing the value of the patented technology to our clients’ websites, calculating non-infringing design-around alternative costs, as well as analyzing patent damages resulting from purported cost savings.  We ultimately determined that the opposing expert’s damages calculation was overstated by millions of dollars for each client.  We issued three expert reports in this matter and Stout's expert was deposed over her opinions.  All three cases settled after expert reports and depositions were completed.