Order Denying Motion for Accounting to Determine
Supplemental Damages, Kaneka Corporation v. JBS Hair,
Inc., N.D. Tex. (June 13, 2018) (Judge David
Godbey)
In a long running dispute between Kaneka Corporation and Uno
& Company over flame retardant polyester fibers for artificial
hair, the patent owner Kaneka won nearly $6 million in lost profits
damages in June 2013, and received an accounting of damages through
the entry of judgment in November 2013. In March of 2015, Kaneka
also received a permanent injunction against Uno precluding the
company and others from further infringement of the asserted
patents.
In April 2016, the Federal Circuit affirmed Kaneka's
judgment on appeal. The parties briefly litigated Kaneka's bill
of costs, and the case then went dormant for 15 months. However, in
November 2017, Kaneka obtained new evidence of infringement by Uno.
Instead of filing a new infringement suit, Kaneka understandably
tried what might have seemed like an
