A Kentucky Internet company that lost a patent infringement case against Google Inc. does not have to pay about $660,000 of Google’s legal bills, thanks to a recent ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
On Jan. 11, a unanimous panel in iLOR LLC v. Google Inc. reversed the Eastern District of Kentucky’s award of legal fees to Google and remanded the case back to that court. The Federal Circuit held that iLOR’s proposed definition of one of the claims in the patent at issue “was not objectively baseless.”
