Modine Manufacturing Company, Plaintiff/cross-Appellant v. The Allen Group, Inc., D/B/A the G & O Manufacturing Company

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that district court has discretion to deny attorneys’ fees even where a jury found willful infringement
• affirming district court’s decision to decline fee award despite exceptional case finding, given the court’s explanation
• declining to enhance damages where willfulness was “‘sufficiently close on the evidence’”
• an 20 exceptional case does not always require a fee award
• an 12 exceptional case does not always require a fee award

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).