A New York federal judge has ordered a patent holder and his lawyers to pay attorney fees for bringing an infringement suit based on "nothing more than a tissue of lies." Judge Paul A. Crotty invalidated Irving Bauer's patent, writing that he refused to believe that Bauer, "lacking any training or experience in the field, and equipped only with curiosity and pluck, was able to successfully design around the industry standard."
July 23, 2008 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
A federal judge has ordered a patent holder and his lawyers to pay attorney fees for bringing an infringement suit based on “nothing more than a tissue of lies.”
Irving Bauer had sued Romag Fasteners Inc., a manufacturer of magnetic snap closures for handbags, for infringing a 1996 patent on a new type of closure he claimed to have invented.
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