District of Delaware Judge Gregory B. Williams has ruled that cases filed against eHarmony and The Meet Group are exceptional, justifying a shift of attorney fees. Wireless Discovery LLC initially sued over a single patent directed to the abstract idea of “allowing people using mobile devices to share personal information over a network (i.e., a social network)”. Among other problems, the court noted, “This was not a close patent eligibility case” but “faced with the authority demonstrating the weakness of the ‘875 patent, Wireless Discovery doubled down”. An accounting of the fees to be shifted is to be “determined later”.
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