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Penn v. Jack

Penn v Jack (1867) LR 5 Eq 81; (1866) 14 LT 495
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtCourt of Chancery (Master of the Rolls / Vice-Chancellor), England
Year1866
StatusPersuasive authority

Key Principle

In assessing a patentee's pecuniary remedy for infringement, the appropriate measure may be the manufacturing profit the patentee would have made on the infringing articles (i.e. the profit lost by reason of the infringing competition), rather than a notional licence royalty alone.

Area of Law

General

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