April, 2017

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An Award of Exceptional Case Fees Under the Patent Act for an Appeal

Greenspoon Marder LLP

By: Sharon Urias, Esq. On top of $2 million in attorneys’ fees and over $4 million in trebled damages, MGA Entertainment, Inc. (the maker of Bratz dolls) has to pay Innovention Toys LLC’s attorneys’ fees for appellate proceedings that went to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals and then up to the United States Supreme Court. Innovention Toys originally filed the lawsuit against MGA in 2007 for patent infringement of a strategy board game called “Khet,” which uses laser beams to “fire” at opposi

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Did I Settle the Case Even Though I Didn’t Sign a Settlement Agreement?

Greenspoon Marder LLP

By: Sharon Urias, Esq. In a patent infringement case filed in February 2016 in the Eastern District of Texas by Neurovision Medical Products, Inc. against Medtronic, Inc., the parties attended a mediation in December 2016 in an unsuccessful effort to settle the case. The parties continued their settlement discussions and in February 2017, Neurovision’s owner and a Medtronic director exchanged offers and counteroffers by email.