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Intellectual Property

Oct. 12, 2017

Judge awards Google lawyers $820K in fees after patent case

A federal judge awarded more than $820,000 in fees to attorneys who successfully represented Google and some of its subsidiaries against a patent case.

A federal judge awarded more than $820,000 in fees to attorneys who successfully represented Alphabet Inc.-owned Google and some of its subsidiaries in a patent case.

The plaintiff, Max Sound Corp., lost the case when U.S. District Judge Edward J. Davila of San Jose ruled that it didn’t actually own the rights to the patent it was trying to assert. Max Sound Corp. v. Google Inc., 14-CV04412 (N.D. Cal., filed Oct. 1, 2014).

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