A Delaware federal judge has signed off on automaker Jaguar Land Rover North America’s request for more than $2 million in “exceptional case” attorney fees and expenses over a patent infringement case that was deemed “objectively baseless.”
The award covers work Jaguar outside counsel Latham & Watkins and Shaw Keller put in to defend their client since October 2013, when plaintiff Vehicle Interface Technologies (VIT) knew that its case could not succeed. VIT, a subsidiary of patent holding company Empire IP, had sued the luxury carmaker in 2012, claiming infringement of a patent for dashboard displays.
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