No Attorneys' Fees for Carnegie Mellon

Courthouse News Service: A jury awarded $1.2 billion to Carnegie Mellon University in a patent case, but the university cannot collect $17.2 million in attorneys' fees, a federal judge ruled. Carnegie Mellon sued Marvell Technology Group and Marvell Semiconductor for willful infringement of two sequence-detection patents in high-density magnetic recording devices. As the case went to trial, Marvell sought to advise the jury that it thought the suit had been unduly delayed. The court refused to enter the laches instruction, after determining that the parties had failed to meet and confer.