Ppg Industries, Inc. v. Celanese Polymer Specialties Co., Inc.

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• recognizing the dis- trict court’s “broad discretion in calculating the amount of fees” although reversing the trial court’s denial of fees for related reissue proceedings because it held that the “entire work product was necessary to the case”
• recognizing the dis- trict court’s “broad discretion in calculating the amount of fees” although reversing the trial court’s denial of fees for related reissue proceedings because it held that the “entire work product was necessary to the case”
• noting in dicta that A in this circuit reasonable rates for in-house counsel may be calculated on cost plus overhead @
• noting in dicta that “in this circuit reasonable rates for in-house counsel may be calculated on cost plus overhead”
• noting in dicta that “in this circuit reasonable rates for in-house counsel may be calculated on cost plus overhead”
• reversing the district court’s denial of attorneys’ fees for certain inter partes PTO proceedings, as those proceedings were “use- ful and of a type ordinarily necessary” and “substituted for the District Court litigation on all issues considered by the PTO and the Board”

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