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Comment: District courts grant more fee-shifting requests, but impact on NPEs unclear

By Amy Miller ( October 28, 2014, 17:58 GMT | Comment) -- Nearly six months after the US Supreme Court made it easier to award attorneys' fees in “exceptional” patent cases, district court judges are increasingly sanctioning parties for filing frivolous lawsuits or engaging in litigation misconduct — except in the most popular place to file a patent suit: the Eastern District of Texas. It is still unclear what impact the looser standards for fee shifting will have on so-called patent trolls, or 'nonpracticing entities.'Nearly six months after the US Supreme Court made it easier to award attorneys' fees in “exceptional” patent cases, US district court judges are increasingly sanctioning parties for filing frivolous lawsuits or engaging in litigation misconduct — except in the most popular place to file a patent suit: the Eastern District of Texas....

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