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August 10 2012
A judge has tripled the damages which a jury awarded Carl Zeiss in a patent suit against Signet Armorlite and ordered the latter to recall any spectacles related to the infringement from shops.
Documents filed in the US District Court’s Southern District of California revealed Zeiss has been given enhanced damages amounting to $2,054,892, as well as $684,964 in compensatory damages, which were awarded by a jury in April.
At the time, the jury ruled that Signet Armorlite’s Kodak Unique Lens infringed on a patent already taken out by Carl Zeiss, which covered a ‘spectacle lens with spherical front side and multifocal back side and process for its production’.
The Court supported the claim that Signet Armorlite failed to investigate the scope of the patent and did not obtain a ‘competent’ legal opinion on whether it would infringe the patent.
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