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DISH Network L.L.C. v. Dragon Intellectual Property LLC, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, No. 2022-1621, 2022-1622, 2022-1777, 2022-1779 · judgment May 20, 2024
Before the decision, modestly above the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a circuit split argued in the petition, a Federal Circuit decision below, and a business petitioner, and down for a business respondent.
Questions presented
The Patent Act’s fee-shifting statute, 35 U.S.C. § 285, states: “The court in exceptional cases may award reasonable attorney fees to the prevailing party.” The questions presented are:
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Whether the Patent Act’s fee-shifting statute allows a district court discretion to impose joint and several liability for the fee award on a party’s attorney whose actions substantially contribute to the exceptionality of the case.
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Whether the same fee-shifting statute allows a district court discretion to award attorney’s fees incurred by a prevailing accused infringer in a parallel administrative proceeding to invalidate a patent.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Lauren Jarvis Dreyer
Baker Botts LLP
For respondent
Robert Edward Freitas
Freitas & Weinberg LLP
Case
Subject area
Attorneys (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Amicus briefs
3 cert-stage
Order
Order list, February 24, 2025 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Feb 24 2025Petition DENIED.
- Feb 10 2025Brief amici curiae of High Tech Inventors Alliance, et al. filed. (Distributed)
- Feb 10 2025Brief amicus curiae of Unified Patents, LLC filed. (Distributed)
- Feb 06 2025Brief amicus curiae of Nextremity Solutions, LLC filed. (Distributed)
- Feb 05 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/21/2025.
- Feb 04 2025Waiver of right of respondents Freitas & Weinberg LLP; Robert E. Freitas to respond filed.
- Feb 03 2025Waiver of right of respondent Dragon Intellectual Property, LLC to respond filed.
- Jan 08 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 10, 2025)