Supreme Court Eases Burden For Recovering Attorneys’ Fees
In Octane Fitness v. Icon Health and Fitness, the United States Supreme Court unanimously held that the Federal Circuit’s standard for awarding attorneys’ fee under 35 U.S.C. § 285 is too rigid, lowering the burden for successful patent litigants to recover their fees. All patent litigants should take heed: the risk of patent litigation just…