...(ie, "increased damages") portion of any award.233 D. INCREASED DAMAGES AND ATTORNEY FEES By statute, "the court may increase the damages up to three times the amount found or assessed"234 and "in exceptional cases may award reasonable attorney fees to the prevailing party."235...

...use made of the invention by the infringer, together with interest and costs as fixed by the court. When the damages are not found by a jury, the court...damages up to three times the amount found or assessed. The court may receive expert testimony as an aid to the determination of damages or of what royalty...

...Id. [B] Enhanced Damages for Willfulness Under § 284 of the Patent Act, the court has discretion to "increase the damages up to three times the amount found or assessed." Increased damages are only available for direct or indirect types of infringement, however. The reasonable...

...Under the Patent Act The Patent Act provides for increased damage awards against patent infringers: 'The court may increase the damages up to three times the amount found or assessed."1 Thus, district courts are vested with discretion to determine whether increased damages...

...use made of the invention by the infringer, together with interest and costs as fixed by the court. When the damages are not found by a jury, the court...damages up to three times the amount found or assessed. Increased damages under this paragraph shall not apply to provisional rights under section 154(d) of...

...fees and treble damages are also granted under 284 when there is willful infringement. See id. at 1560 ("The court may increase the damages up to three times the amount found or assessed.") (quoting 35 USC § 284 (1988)). 18. US Patent Statistics, Calendar Years 1963-2001, at http://www.uspto.gov/web/...

...lost profits, the patentee must actually prove his or her loss and cannot merely point to the profit When the damages are not found by a jury, the court...damages up to three times the amount found or assessed. Increased damages under this paragraph shall not apply to provisional rights under section 154(d) of...

...infringer, together with Interest and costs as rixed Dv the court. when tne damages ore not round Dy a jury/ the court shall assess them. In either event...Increase the damages up to three times the amount round or assessed. rne court may receive expert testimony as an aid to the determination of damages...

...together with interests and costs as fixed by the court. When the damages are not found by a iury, the court shall assess them, in either event the court may increase the damages up to threel"l35l times the amount found or assessed. The statute codifies the general rule of damages resulting...

...use made of the invention by the infringer, together with interest and costs as fixed by the court. When the damages are not found by a jury, the court...damages up to three times the amount found or assessed. Increased damages under this paragraph shall not apply to provisional rights under section 154(d) of...