October 24, 2017
A California federal judge refused on Monday to rethink $1.3 million in attorneys' fees awarded to two pharmaceutical companies that Stanford University and ThermoLife International LLC unsuccessfully sued for patent infringement, saying the case was exceptional and that the parties' prelitigation investigation was "severely lacking."
June 02, 2017
Stanford University and ThermoLife International asked a California federal court Thursday to slash attorneys' fees awarded to two pharmaceutical companies they unsuccessfully sued for patent infringement over their alleged use of certain drug ingredients, proposing they be cut from $1.3 million to less than $10,000 total.
April 10, 2017
A California federal judge has ruled that ThermoLife International LLC and Stanford University must pay attorneys' fees worth up to $1.3 million to Vital Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals Inc., finding the intellectual property infringement litigation in which the plaintiffs were accused of being "patent trolls" was exceptional under the Octane standard.
November 18, 2016
ThermoLife International LLC hit back Friday at GNC Corp.'s bid for attorney fees based on the accusation that ThermoLife is a patent troll, saying the sheer number of alleged patent infringements of their brand does not mean that they should be punished.
October 13, 2016
GNC and supplement companies that beat ThermoLife International LLC's infringement suit over amino acid patents that were ruled invalid asked a California federal judge on Wednesday to award them attorneys' fees and costs, saying the "patent troll" had blindly sued them to extract settlements.
September 21, 2016
A California judge on Wednesday shut down sports nutrition company ThermoLife's patent infringement suit against two supplement-making rivals and GNC, ruling after a bench trial that the patents on using amino acids to improve physical performance ThermoLife licensed from Stanford are invalid.
June 30, 2016
A licensee's yearslong delay in suing GNC Corp. over patents for amino acids delivery devices will not nix ThermoLife International LLC's infringement suit, but will limit the sports nutrition company's damages period, a California federal judge has ruled.