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March 25, 2009
Feeling Taken
Slapped with millions in fees over failed patent litigation,
E-Pass has served a lawsuit on its former
lawyers: primary counsel Moses & Singer,
along with local counsel Squire Sanders & Dempsey.
New counsel
James Rosen of Rosen Saba: "In
advising E-Pass to file and maintain their patent infringement claim, they spent
$10 million in legal fees and costs without a sound basis to make the elemental
case of patent infringement." No mention was made of personal responsibility for
one's own actions.
Not only did E-Pass' patent suit righteously rile Northern California District Judge D. Lowell Jensen, who threw the case out after slugging E-Pass with sanctions and fees, but the CAFC piled it on upon appeal. A real stinker for the books from the get-go to the last lick.
The angry act-out against its own attorneys was filed in January, but E-Pass didn't uncork with service until after the CAFC reamed them royally. Singled out were Stephen Weiss of Moses & Singer, and Mark Dosker of Squire Sanders.
Andrew Oliver of Townsend and Townsend and Crew, who represented the accused and aggrieved: "I felt that it was nice that the judges held the attorneys jointly and severally liable."
Posted by Patent Hawk at March 25, 2009 12:08 AM | Litigation
Comments
Did E-Pass go and get a second opinion?
For 10 million bucks, I would *hope* that they did.
Posted by: anonymousAgent at March 25, 2009 10:44 AM