Federal Circuit OKs Sanctions Against Paul Hastings and Client in Patent Case

brThe Federal Circuit on Friday upheld sanctions and $4.5 million worth of attorney fees against a medical company and its lawyers for pursuing frivolous claims. A California federal judge had sanctioned ICU Medical and its lawyers at Paul Hastings in 2007 for their behavior in a patent case. The company is on the hook for the attorney fees, according to that judge’s order — but the judge wrote at the time that both the company and its counsel had violated Rule 11, which forbids pursuing frivolous claims. a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=’http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202429081570rss=newswire’Continue…/abr