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July 6, 2017, 12:55 AM UTC

Frivolous Patent Case Fighter Newegg Wins Attorneys’ Fees

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By Tony Dutra, Bloomberg BNA

Newegg Inc. won attorneys’ fees in a July 5 federal appeals court ruling that struck at the practice of winning settlements by suing many parties for infringing the same patent.

Computer-mounted camera patent owner AdjustaCam LLC settled its lawsuits with about 50 defendants, but Newegg — an online retailer known for not settling infringement cases — held out, eventually asking AdjustaCam to pay its attorneys’ fees.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in awarding the fees to Newegg, reversed a lower court’s decision that AdjustaCam’s case was not objectively baseless. It chastised ...

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