Firm and two of its lawyers must pay $200K over frivolous patent case

A federal judge has slapped a firm and two partners with more than $200,000 in sanctions for filing a frivolous patent case, opposing a sanctions ruling and wasting the court's time. The judge wrote that "the decision to seek reconsideration of the ... sanctions motion caused this court to waste even more time" and the opposing party "to waste even more money, than had already been wasted in supervising and defending against" the suit.

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