Halo Electronics, Inc. v. Pulse Electronics, Inc.

Halo Electronics, Inc. v. Pulse Electronics, Inc., 579 U.S. ___ (2016), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the two-part Seagate test, used to determine when a district court may increase damages for patent infringement, is not consistent with Section 284 of the Patent Act.[1][2]

Halo Electronics, Inc. v. Pulse Electronics, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 23, 2016 Decided June 13, 2016
Full case name	Halo Electronics, Inc., Petitioner v. Pulse Electronics, Inc., et al.; Stryker Corporation, et al., Petitioners v. Zimmer, Inc., et al.
Docket nos.	14-1513 14-1520
Citations	579 U.S. ___ (more) 136 S. Ct. 1923; 195 L. Ed. 2d 278; 2016 U.S. LEXIS 3776; 84 U.S.L.W. 4386; 118 U.S.P.Q.2d 1761
Opinion announcement	Opinion announcement
Case history
Prior	Claims construed, 721 F. Supp. 2d 989 (D. Nev. 2010); summary judgment granted, 810 F. Supp. 2d 1173 (D. Nev. 2011); affirmed, 769 F.3d 1371 (Fed. Cir. 2014); cert. granted, 136 S.Ct. 356 (2015) Judgment as a matter of law denied, Stryker Corp. v. Zimmer Inc., No. 1:10-cv-1223, 2013 WL 6231533 (W.D. Mich. Aug. 7, 2013), affirmed in part, vacated in part, reversed in part, 774 F.3d 1349 (Fed. Cir. 2014), superseded on rehearing, 782 F.3d 649 (Fed. Cir. 2015); cert. granted, 136 S.Ct. 356 (2015)
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Anthony Kennedy · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor Elena Kagan
Case opinions
Majority	Roberts, joined by unanimous
Concurrence	Breyer, joined by Kennedy, Alito