As we head to another session at this year’s INTA conference, we are interested in the diversity of trademark infringement damages policies across the world.
In today’s “Damages in Europe” Session (CM01) Experts from Europe, for example, compared and contrasted the recovery guidelines in the Netherlands, France, Germany, and the UK.
In the Netherlands, the prevailing party can expect to recover all reasonable costs, while in the UK cost recovery in patent cases is limited to £50,000 – hardly a week’s costs in some US cases! In contrast, damages awards some times take on the characteristic of punitive damages.
Read more: INTA Daily News, Monday May 16, 2011, Published by Managing Intellectual Property.