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... The Supreme Court’s new guidance on the framework for § 285 fee-shifting should provide patent litigants with more opportunity and freedom in seeking attorney’s fees, especially in cases against eager patent assertion entities (also known as patent trolls); in cases where infringement arguments are tenuous at best; and in cases where the patents are weak, yet still continue to be pressed. The Supreme Court’s flexible, totality-of-the-circumstances framework is likely to provide district ...