530 U.S. 133 (2000) Cited 21,065 times 22 Legal Analyses
Holding that, since the 58-year-old plaintiff was fired by his 60-year-old employer, there was an inference that "age discrimination was not the motive"
485 U.S. 681 (1988) Cited 2,347 times 4 Legal Analyses
Holding that under Rule 104(b), the "court simply examines all the evidence in the case and decides whether the jury could reasonably find the conditional fact . . . by a preponderance of the evidence"
483 U.S. 756 (1987) Cited 1,630 times 1 Legal Analyses
Holding no Doyle violation occurs if the trial court sustains a timely objection to the allegedly improper question and instructs the jury to disregard that question
Holding that evidence of royalty rates from licenses without a relationship to the claimed invention could not form the basis of a reasonable royalty calculation
Fed. R. Evid. 401 Cited 13,350 times 34 Legal Analyses
Providing that evidence is relevant if " it has any tendency to make a fact more or less probable than it would be without the evidence; and (b) the fact is of consequence in determining the action"
17 U.S.C. § 504 Cited 3,580 times 55 Legal Analyses
Stating that, where "infringement was committed willfully, the court in its discretion may increase the award of statutory damages to a sum of not more than $150,000"