A federal appeals court reversed nearly $34,000 in attorney fees that a district court had ordered MCom IP LLC to pay City National Bank of Florida and a nearly $51,000 sanction against the lawyer who filed the underlying case.
A Florida judge in March 2025 sanctioned MCom and its Florida counsel Victoria Brieant after a magistrate judge found it filed an infringement lawsuit against City National even though the Patent Trial and Appeal Board invalidated the electronic banking technology patent months earlier.
On Friday, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld the Southern District of Florida’s dismissal ...
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