Ecofactor, Inc. v. Google LLC

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Ecofactor, Inc. v. Google LLC

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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