Howmedica's Decade Of Misconduct Won Zimmer $13M Fees

By Dani Kass (May 24, 2018, 7:29 PM EDT) -- A New Jersey federal judge ordered Howmedica to pay Zimmer Biomet $13.3 million in attorneys' fees as part of a long-running patent dispute because Howmedica repeatedly misled the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and spent 10 years pursuing claims it knew were baseless, according to an opinion made public Wednesday....

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