St. Luke's Hospital Ass'n v. United States

Parentheticals

• “exemplary damages [under patent act] and attorneys’ fees are not money claims triable by jury, although they are awarded in a legal action.”

  Younis Bros. & Co., Inc. v. CIGNA Worldwide Ins. Co.

• jury request upheld in patent infringement action where plaintiff requested, inter alia, an accounting for profits and damages

  American Cyanamid Co. v. Sterling Drug, Inc.

• jury trial; trial of damage issue in patent cases is “often difficult and expensive” yet “easily severed” from liability questions; additional opportunity for avoiding or settling damage issue created by separation; nonmovants failed to show “serious prejudice” in separation

  Brad Ragan, Inc. v. Shrader's Inc.

• bifurcating patent case into liability and damage trials

  Ciena Corp. v. Corvis Corp.