Last week, in long-running litigation, a Central District of California jury returned a verdict in favor of funded plaintiff SPEX Technologies, Inc., finding that Western Digital infringed a single claim from one patent generally related to securing a peripheral computing device. The jury apportioned damages for the provision of two accused hard disk drives, roughly $194M for the My Book and roughly $122M for the Ultrastar He10. The eight-year run of this case included two stays, a trip up to the Federal Circuit, and the decimation of SPEX’s planned damages case, forcing the plaintiff to present a facts-only theory without the benefit of expert opinion.