Dish’s $3.9 Million Fee Award in Patent Case Erased by Fed. Cir.

The Federal Circuit wiped out a $3.9 million attorneys’ fees award that Dish Network LLC and its Sling TV LLC unit won while defending a patent infringement suit.

A three-judge panel took issue with a Colorado court’s list of “red flags” that contributed to a finding that patent owner Realtime Adaptive Streaming LLC pressed forward with a lawsuit it should’ve known was “fatally flawed,” according to a precedential opinion issued Friday.

Realtime’s 2017 lawsuit filed in US District Court for the District of Colorado accused Dish and its Sling TV unit of infringing US Patent No. 8,867,610 as part of ...