Recovering Attorney Fees & Damages When Defending Against Bad Faith Patent Litigation

First presented by Richard P. Beem at the 1997 American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. in October of 1997. This paper is addressed to companies which believe that they have been accused unjustly in U.S. federal court of infringing a U.S. patent. What can the allegedly infringing company do to defend itself? This paper was translated in Japanese and published in Japan.