A Florida company is seeking attorney fees in a lawsuit that alleged Locke Lord and three of its attorneys engaged in malicious prosecution by representing a man who had lost an earlier patent infringement case against the company.

“The Gonzalez patents were applied for and obtained solely for purposes of assertion against purported infringers for purposes of financial gain of Gonzalez and his attorneys,” said an amended complaint in New Life Ventures v. Locke Lord. “Gonzalez and his attorneys were aware that New Life did not infringe the Gonzalez patents before filing the underlying complaint against New Life.”

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