Attorney fee bid backfires on Alibaba, eBay in patent case as judge blasts 'greed and overreach'
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Jan Wolfe
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August 17, 2020
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(Reuters) - A federal judge has denied a request by Alibaba and eBay Inc to recover a combined $4.5 million in attorney fees and costs they incurred fending off a cloud computing patent case, saying "greed" on the part of lawyers for the e-commerce...
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