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Top ten U.S. patent litigation cases by damages awarded 1997-2017
This statistic shows the top ten largest U.S. patent litigation cases in terms of initial damages rewarded between 1997 and 2017. The largest amount of initial damages awarded in a case was in 2016 where Idenix Pharmaceuticals LLC were awarded damages of over 2.54 billion U.S. dollars from Gilead Sciences Inc.