June 14, 2018
A Texas federal judge on Wednesday adopted a magistrate's recommendation to deny Wilson Sporting Goods Co. the fees and costs of defending itself against part of SportStar Athletics Inc.'s patent infringement suit over football helmet chin straps, saying the recommendation was well-founded.
March 14, 2018
Wilson Sporting Goods Co. urged a Texas federal court Tuesday to reject a magistrate's recommendation to deny the sports equipment maker $61,451 in fees it racked up in a rival's patent suit over football helmet chin straps, saying the magistrate relied on a pre-Octane Fitness standard.
March 01, 2018
A federal magistrate judge in Texas has recommended that Wilson Sporting Goods Co.'s request for roughly $60,000 in attorneys' fees be denied in a patent suit against it over football helmet chin straps, finding no proof that SportStar Athletics Inc.'s decision to continue its case was frivolous.
November 14, 2017
Wilson Sporting Goods Co. asked a Texas federal court on Monday to award it an estimated $61,451 in attorneys' fees as well as costs after it said SportStar Athletics Inc. knowingly continued a baseless patent infringement suit against it over football helmet chin straps.
September 29, 2017
Wilson Sporting Goods Co. dodged part of a patent infringement suit lodged against it by SportStar Athletics Inc. over football helmet chin straps when a Texas federal judge ruled in an order entered Thursday that the two patents at issue had not been literally infringed.
July 02, 2015
Sports equipment maker Wilson Sporting Goods Co. asked a Texas federal court Thursday to toss a patent infringement suit lodged against it by SportStar Athletics Inc., saying the football helmet chin-strap in question does not violate the asserted patents.
June 01, 2015
A sporting goods manufacturer has sued Wilson Sporting Goods Co. in Texas federal court for allegedly violating two patents for a type of football helmet chin strap.