November 16, 2023
A California federal judge slammed PersonalWeb and its former counsel during a hearing Thursday on Amazon's request for more than $5 million in fees for beating patent infringement claims, saying PersonalWeb is a "poster child for bad faith tactics" and the company and "any attorneys associated with it should be ashamed."
June 24, 2021
U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap next week will consider an inventor group's bid to halt the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office from instituting patent reviews until the agency goes through a rulemaking process concerning when it denies reviews based on parallel litigation. Here's a look at that case — plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.
March 02, 2021
The Fenwick & West LLP team representing Amazon in PersonalWeb's failed patent infringement dispute with the online retail giant will come away with a hefty $4.6 million in attorney fees plus an additional $203,000 in court costs, a California federal judge ruled Tuesday.