After obtaining the abatement for the Birrenbachs, Ms. Ephron-Mandel asked the court to order the landlord to pay the tenants' attorney fees, which after two years of litigation amounted to more than $125,000.
The rising costs of patent litigation amounts to a tax on innovation, especially for smaller startups.
Liquidation, discharge of a debt or the determination by agreement or litigation of the amount of a previously unliquidated claim.
Also climbing, alas, is the number of lawsuits over patent infringement, the cost of litigation, and the amount of money plaintiffs are winning.Meanwhile, emerging technology powerhouses such as China and India are competing to move up from lower-end work such as hardware manufacturing and software coding to more sophisticated projects requiring their own innovation.
The revenue model simply pushes real costs onto the private sector, where the costs of patent litigation can easily amount to millions of dollars per side.
The terms of the settlement remain confidential, but a reference to the case in court filings in other Trans Healthcare litigation suggests the amount was easily in the millions.
The problem is there's a huge amount of litigation.
No amount of litigation could ever ensure a perfectly fair or error-free outcome".
Instead of getting insurance, we got ourselves a massive amount of litigation".
Finally, there's been an increasing amount of litigation by environmentalists trying to limit access.
