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District Courts Trend Toward Discouraging Weak Patent Suits

By Brian Michalek ( August 26, 2019, 3:33 PM EDT) -- In March 2019, the U. S. District Court for the District of Delaware granted defendants' attorney fees in the twin cases of Finnavations v. Payoneer Inc. [1] and Finnavations v. Stitch Labs Inc. [2] after finding the plaintiff's patent abstract and invalid. The reasoning for this relief was simple — the asserted patent was clearly abstract, and it should never have been asserted in the first place. The court granted over $200,000 in attorney fees. . . .

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