Opinion

Ecofactor, Inc. v. Google LLC

Court
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Filed
Dec 5, 2024
Status
Published
Cited by
0 cases
Authority
More cited than 33.2%

The opinion

Case: 23-1101 Document: 165 Page: 1 Filed: 12/04/2024

United States Court of Appeals

for the Federal Circuit

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ECOFACTOR, INC.,

Plaintiff-Appellee

v.

GOOGLE LLC,

Defendant-Appellant

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2023-1101

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Appeal from the United States District Court for the

Western District of Texas in No. 6:20-cv-00075-ADA, Judge

Alan D. Albright.

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REZA MIRZAIE, Russ August & Kabat, Los Angeles, CA,

for EcoFactor, Inc. Also represented by KRISTOPHER DAVIS,

MARC A. FENSTER, MINNA JAY, BRIAN DAVID LEDAHL, JAMES

PICKENS.

GINGER ANDERS, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP,

Washington, DC, for Google LLC. Also represented by

VINCENT LING, Los Angeles, CA; EVAN JENNINGS MANN,

San Francisco, CA; STEPHANIE JILL GOLDBERG, KRISTIN

ELIZABETH HUCEK, LEO L. LAM, ROBERT ADAM LAURIDSEN,

EUGENE M. PAIGE, ROBERT A. VAN NEST, Keker, Van Nest &

Peters LLP, San Francisco, CA.

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Case: 23-1101 Document: 165 Page: 2 Filed: 12/04/2024

2 ECOFACTOR, INC. v. GOOGLE LLC

Before MOORE, Chief Judge, LOURIE, DYK, PROST, REYNA,

TARANTO, CHEN, HUGHES, STOLL, and STARK, Circuit

Judges.1

PER CURIAM.

ORDER

The court granted rehearing en banc “limited to

addressing the district court’s adherence to Federal Rule of

Evidence 702 and Daubert v. Merrell Dow

Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579 (1993), in its allowance

of testimony from EcoFactor’s damages expert assigning a

per-unit royalty rate to the three licenses in evidence in

this case.” Google’s argument at pages 41–58 of its brief

exceeds the scope of the court’s en banc rehearing, as its

footnote 11 all but recognizes. EcoFactor should not

address this argument in its response brief.

FOR THE COURT

December 4, 2024

Date

1 Circuit Judge Newman and Circuit Judge

Cunningham did not participate.

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