{"id":13437,"date":"2014-06-02T09:39:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T14:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13437"},"modified":"2014-06-02T09:39:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T14:39:48","slug":"first-patent-troll-ordered-to-pay-extraordinary-case-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13437","title":{"rendered":"First patent troll ordered to pay \u201cextraordinary case\u201d fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Lumen\u2019s motivation in this litigation was to extract a nuisance settlement from FTB on the theory that FTB would rather pay an unjustified license fee than bear the costs of the threatened expensive litigation,&#8221; Cote stated in the order she issued on Friday. &#8220;Lumen\u2019s threats of &#8216;full-scale litigation,&#8217; &#8216;protracted discovery,&#8217; and a settlement demand escalator should FTB file responsive papers, were aimed at convincing FTB that a pay-off was the lesser injustice.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2014\/06\/its-payback-time-as-findthebest-wrests-legal-fees-from-patent-troll\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29\">Payback time: First patent troll ordered to pay \u201cextraordinary case\u201d fees | Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Lumen\u2019s motivation in this litigation was to extract a nuisance settlement from FTB on the theory that FTB would rather pay an unjustified license fee than bear the costs of the threatened expensive litigation,&#8221; Cote stated in the order she &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13437\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[1096,875,301],"class_list":["post-13437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-fight-back","tag-litigation","tag-patent-trolls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13438,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13437\/revisions\/13438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}