The jury awarded damages of $1.17bn, the third largest ever in a patent case at the time.
This decision criteria is likely to be the primary one in patent cases.
He had been handling 90% of the patent cases in Marshall, but later was reduced to 60%.
To date, Barr is two for three in big patent cases.
I told him very little; simply that he was not to consider the patent case as closed.
"We look forward to the decision on our patent case by the Court of Appeals."
Specialized courts also exist for family, administrative, and patent cases.
"Typically, to bring a major patent case to trial, it will cost a minimum of $1 million," he said.
He had to start thinking about his patent cases.
The other high court patent cases were bad enough.