而根据卡耐基梅隆大学的声明，作为发明人的José Moura和Aleksandar?Kavcic 将获得大部分的收益。

A substantial share of the proceeds will go to the inventors, José Moura, a professor in Carnegie Mellon's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Aleksandar Kavcic, a former doctoral student of Moura who is now a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Hawaii.

关于这个案件的来龙去脉是这样的。

2012年，美国的一个陪审团判决硬盘控制芯片生产商Marvell侵犯了卡耐基梅隆大学的两项专利，Marvell必须为专利侵犯赔偿1,169,140,271美元的损失。

陪审团之所以判决了这么高的赔付是根据Marvell出售的包含特定半导体芯片的硬盘驱动器，按每个50美分计算的，然后加上罚款和利息，卡耐基梅隆获得的赔偿金额将高达15.4亿美元。

Carnegie Mellon University (“CMU”) sued Marvell Technology Group, Ltd. and Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. (collectively “Marvell”) for infringing two patents related to hard-disk drives. A jury found for CMU on infringement and validity, and it awarded roughly $1.17 billion as a reasonable royalty for the infringing acts, using a rate of 50 cents for each of certain semiconductor chips sold by Marvell for use in hard-disk drives. The district court then used that rate to extend the award to the date of judgment, awarded a 23-percent enhancement of the pastdamages award based on Marvell’s willfulness (found by the jury and the district court), and entered a judgment of roughly $1.54 billion for past infringement and a continuing royalty at 50 cents per Marvell-sold chip.

后来Marvell上诉，上诉法院批准了2.78亿美元的赔偿，其余损失的计算要求地区法院重审。最近，双方达成和解，Marvell同意向卡耐基梅隆支付7.5亿美元了结诉讼。

Marvell appeals. We affirm the judgment of infringement and validity. As to the monetary relief: We affirm the rejection of Marvell’s laches defense to pre-suit damages. We reverse the grant of enhanced damages under the governing willfulness standard, which does not require that Marvell have had a reasonable defense in mind when it committed its past infringement. We reject Marvell’s challenge to the royalty (past and continuing) with one exception.

根据美国联邦上诉法院判决书中的内容，卡耐基梅隆大学持有的两个专利分别是名为“用于相关敏感自适应序列检测的方法和装置”的专利US6,201,839和名为“ISI内存通道的软硬序列检测”的专利US6,201,839，这两个专利主要涉及到硬盘降噪，这篇专利在百度学术中查到分别被引用了79次和80次，都是对应领域的最高引用文献，对一篇专利来说，这个数字足以说明这两篇专利的价值。

CMU owns U.S. Patent No. 6,201,839, titled “Method and Apparatus for Correlation-Sensitive Adaptive Sequence Detection,” and related No. 6,438,180, titled “Soft and Hard Sequence Detection in ISI Memory Channels,” both granted to Drs. Aleksandar Kavcic and José Moura. The patents’ written descriptions are largely identical, and both patents claim methods, devices, and systems for improved accuracy in the detection of recorded data when certain types of errors are likely due to the recording medium and reading mechanism. The inventions are particularly suited for the magnetic data-storage media of hard-disk drives in computers.

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7.5亿美元是计算机领域目前为止的专利诉讼最高赔付，也是非医药技术领域中专利诉讼目前第二高的赔付。

Marvell公司现在拥有25亿美元的现金和现金等价物，所以7.5亿美元刚好是其30%，巨额赔偿虽然不至于让公司关门歇业，但也算是伤筋动骨的一件事。

在非医药技术领域中，专利诉讼目前第一高的赔付是1990的宝丽来对柯达案，法院判赔9.09亿美元，最后第二年以9.25亿美元和解。这个案子同样还导致了对柯达相机业务的禁令。

第三高的赔付应该是黑莓2006向专利流氓公司NTP赔了6.125美元，因为当时黑莓也面临一项禁令，最后只好花钱了事。

第四高的赔付应该是最近的苹果诉三星案，目前法院判三星需要向苹果支付5.48亿美元。

而在医药领域，专利侵权的赔偿更高，目前最高的是2013年制药公司Sun Pharmaceuticals and Teva 因为药物Protonix acid-reflux专利侵权向辉瑞支付了21.5亿美元，其他比较高的还包括2014年的美敦力公司因为心脏薄膜一案向爱德华生命科学支付了至少11亿美元，其中，美敦力公司还在2005年向一个外科医生以及他的公司因为脊柱外科专利侵权赔付了13.5亿美元。

看着这一个个令人膛目结舌的天价专利侵权赔偿，作为一个中国的专利权人或者发明人，不知您有何感想呢。