On July 11, 2024, Southern District of Texas Judge Lee H. Rosenthal ruled a case against Volkswagen exceptional, holding plaintiff VDPP LLC and its counsel, Ramey LLP, jointly and severally liable for reasonable attorney fees incurred in defending it. This past week, the court quantified that award, shifting a total of $207,543.60. In doing so, the court declined VDPP’s invitation to “allocate the fees between the frivolous and nonfrivolous aspects of the case” because “[i]t was all frivolous”. Undeterred since that July 11 order, VDPP has filed new complaints in various districts, one against each of Casio, Dell, Digital Projection, GeoVision (USA Vision Systems), Giga-Byte Technology, Hon Hai Precision Industry (Belkin), Lenovo, Leyard Optoelectronic (Planar Systems), MediaTek, Pioneer (Pioneer Electronics), Qualcomm, Resideo Technologies, Roku, Senao Networks (EnGenius Technologies), STMicro, and TP-Link.