What are some of the types of damages that one can claim in intellectual property cases?

Intellectual property law offers plaintiffs a wide array of potential economic remedies, depending on whether the infringement concerns trade secrets, copyrights, trademarks or patent. Some of the methods of recovery include the following:

(1) statutory damages (strictly in copyright and trademark cases)

(2) the defendant's ill-gotten profits (in non-patent cases)

(3) plaintiff's lost profits (available for infringement of patents, trademark, copyrights or trade secrets);

(4) reasonable royalty;

(5) goodwill injury (in a trademark case);

(6) corrective advertising (in a trademark case);

(7) costs of the action; and

(8) plaintiff's actual damages.

While there are some similarities in the measures of recovery for patent, trademark, trade secrets, and copyright infringement, the remedies also have distinguishing elements.