SAN FRANCISCO — Electronic Arts Inc. and Zynga Inc. won’t be getting attorney fees from Acacia Research Corp. any time soon.

As he’d foreshadowed at a hearing last week, U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg of the Northern District of California denied fees Tuesday. Acacia subsidiary Gametek may have litigated the case aggressively, but not so unreasonably as to render the case “exceptional” under the U.S. Supreme Court’s new Octane Fitness standard, the judge said.