Perspective
Feb. 12, 2016
Justices to again consider IP fees
Only two years after doing so in the context of patent cases, Supreme Court will address the correct standard for awarding attorney fees in copyright cases. By Edward R. Reines and Elisabeth M. Sperle
Edward R. Reines
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This spring, the U.S. Supreme Court will again wade into the choppy waters of the correct standard for awarding attorney fees in intellectual property cases. Only two years after it addressed this topic in a pair of patent cases, the court will do so in the copyright context in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, 15-375.
The court last addressed the Copyright Act's fees provision in Fogert...
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