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c0lo [soylentnews.org] writes:

Newegg's stance against patent trolls should be already well known (is [arstechnica.com] it [wikipedia.org] not [arstechnica.com]?)

Now, a blog post [newegg.com] (titled "When Will Patent Trolls Learn Not to Mess with Newegg?") on company's site announces that another patent troll (SUS) will feel the heat, despite dropping a bogus claim against 37 companies (Newegg included). Unlike the other 36 of codefendants, Newegg chose to go further and recover its legal fees, an action that most companies choose not to pursue because prevailing defendants were, until recently, required to demonstrate that a plaintiff acted in bad faith.
Bad luck for SUS as it seems that Lee Cheng, Newegg's Chief Legal Officer, is pretty determined and thus obtained a first ruling on fee shifting [marketwatch.com] following the Supreme Court's Octane Fitness v. Icon Health and Fitness [scotusblog.com] (in the Octane case, the Supreme Court ruled that the attorneys' costs and fees could be awarded to a prevailing defendant upon a demonstration that a case merely "stands out from the others.").

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