SAN FRANCISCO — U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken sounded poised Thursday to award “half a loaf” of exceptional case attorney fees—still possibly as much as $5 million—to a quintet of technology companies led by Apple Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co.
The tech giants and three smaller networking outfits say IP licensing company Linex Technologies Inc. peddled the same losing claims before two federal courts and the International Trade Commission despite never obtaining a favorable construction of its patent on spread spectrum signals. Litigation was “pursued in three different courts on three different occasions with substantially similar results,” Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr partner William Lee argued Thursday for Apple and HP.
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