SAN FRANCISCO — A nonpracticing entity that has successfully negotiated licenses with Google Inc. and Verizon Wireless will have to pay a mobile app maker $820,000 for litigating claims in “assembly line fashion.”

U.S. Magistrate Judge Howard Lloyd of the Northern District of California hit IPVX Patent Holdings Inc. with the attorney-fee award Thursday, saying the company knew its patent on a messaging system wasn’t literally infringed, and offered no evidence of infringement by equivalence.

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