A Delaware federal judge has denied Bloomberg’s bid to recover attorney fees for having to defend an infringement lawsuit over a system that provides mobile access to its real-time financial data, ruling the case did not qualify as “exceptional” under U.S. patent law.

U.S. Chief Judge Leonard P. Stark of the District of Delaware said Wednesday that there was no evidence Quest Licensing Corp. had acted in bad faith by pursuing claims that targeted Bloomberg Anywhere, which allows remote access to the company’s flagship product for monitoring financial information from any device.