How NOT to try a patent case: Troll slain by Fed Circ

If you're looking for best practices pointers for patent litigation, here's a tip: Read the August 2 appellate opinion upholding sanctions against the patent holding company Eon-Net and its lawyer Jean-Marc Zimmerman. Then don't do anything they did. The misdeeds of Eon-Net and its lawyer, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, ranged from the bedrock violation of bringing the case in bad faith to litigation...