Dish Asks High Court to Review Patent Attorneys’ Fee Liability

Dish Network LLC asked the US Supreme Court to review whether courts can require attorneys to pay legal fees in exceptionally frivolous patent cases, part of a dispute over DVR technology.

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit erred in holding the Patent Act doesn’t allow courts to impose fee awards on attorneys whose conduct contributed to making a case exceptional, according to Dish’s petition for a writ of certiorari docketed Jan. 10. The Federal Circuit last year rejected Dish’s bid to recover attorneys’ fees from a law firm that represented what Dish described as a “judgment-proof shell” ...