A federal judge on Friday ordered a notorious patent troll to pay the legal costs of a start-up after the troll lost an ” obviously baseless” lawsuit over a questionable “matchmaking” patent.
The ruling appears to be the first time that a court has applied new “loser pays” criteria issued by the Supreme Court in April, which makes it easier for companies to recover fees from trolls.
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