Forest Group, Inc. v. Bon Tool Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that false marking deters innovation and stifles competition in the marketplace
• discussing the determination of whether the case is exceptional as “a question of fact”
• discussing how the false marking statute permits “ ‘a new cottage industry’ of false marking litigation” and that with respect to “ ‘marking trolls,’ ” the false marking statute “explicitly permits qui tam actions.”
• “In the case of qui tam statutes, an injury to the United States is sufficient to confer standing upon a relator.”
• “The hypothetical negotiation also assumes that the asserted patent claims are valid and infringed.”
• using preponderance of the evidence burden in false marking case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).