The prior good news for Taction Technology, Inc.’s litigation funders was that they skirted sanctions threatened by a California magistrate judge, but that upside was tempered by Southern District of California Judge Todd W. Robinson’s grant of summary judgment of noninfringement, bringing the case against Apple to an end, at least for the moment. Now, however, Apple has filed a motion seeking $4.5M in attorney fees plus nearly $450K in expert expenses to cover the price tag of continuing to litigate the case beyond the court’s late September 2022 claim construction order, which, per Apple, contained a ruling that “gutted [Taction’s] infringement theory across every asserted claim”.