Door Systems, Inc., Cross-Appellee v. Pro-Line Door Systems, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “The circumstances that are exceptional when the infringer is being asked to pay the victim’s attorneys’ fees need not be exceptional when the shoe is on the other foot.”
• “[A] suit can be oppressive because of lack of merit and cost of defending.”
• “[A] suit can be oppressive because of lack of merit and cost of defending.”
• bad-faith requirement too narrow; “oppression” standard applied
• bad-faith requirement too narrow; \oppression\ standard applied
• “canonical formula in this and other circuits”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).