After almost seven years, 170 pleadings and four mediation sessions, Florida International University has agreed to end its trademark war against rival Florida National University, with a $1.135 million settlement that dissolved the issue of attorney fees.

FIU sued FNU in 2013, alleging its name was too similar. But the lawsuit flopped when U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams in the Southern District of Florida found no evidence that college applicants ever got the two institutions confused.

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