Fri, 24 Oct 2008

Fee Award Shows Risks of Exposing Threadbare Patents to Light of Litigation

This is the way the system's supposed to work - the problem is that it all too rarely works this way.

In a rare grant of legal fees in a patent case, a federal judge in New Jersey has held a plaintiff clothing company liable for up to $2.5 million it cost competitors and retailers to defeat an infringement claim over a garment for nursing mothers.

(link) [Law.com]

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