context: Attorney fees are awarded when the defendant commits "truly egregious, purposeful infringement, or other purposeful wrongdoing."
citation_a.signal: no signal
citation_a.identifier: 13 F.3d 1159, 1159
citation_a.parenthetical: no attorney fees when "the question of functionality was close enough to remove the case from the ambit of an 'exceptional case' "
citation_a.sentence: Badger Meter, Inc., 13 F.3d at 1159 (no attorney fees when “the question of functionality was close enough to remove the case from the ambit of an ‘exceptional case’ ”) (quoting Service Ideas, Inc. v. Traex Corp., 846 F.2d 1118, 1125 (7th Cir.1988)); see also, Roulo, 886 F.2d 931 (no attorney fees when defendant made a conscious effort to create elements of dissimilarity between products); Cf. Otis Clapp & Son, Inc., 754 F.2d at 746 (the defendant’s ‘targeting’ of the plaintiff in its literature created exceptional case for attorney fees); Gorenstein Enterprises, Inc. v. Quality Care-USA, Inc., 874 F.2d 431, 435, 437 (7th Cir.1989) (upholding attorney fee award when the defendants were “holding the trademark hostage as a bargaining tactic” and litigated the suit in bad faith).
citation_b.signal: cf.
citation_b.identifier: 754 F.2d 746, 746
citation_b.parenthetical: the defendant's 'targeting' of the plaintiff in its literature created exceptional case for attorney fees
citation_b.sentence: Badger Meter, Inc., 13 F.3d at 1159 (no attorney fees when “the question of functionality was close enough to remove the case from the ambit of an ‘exceptional case’ ”) (quoting Service Ideas, Inc. v. Traex Corp., 846 F.2d 1118, 1125 (7th Cir.1988)); see also, Roulo, 886 F.2d 931 (no attorney fees when defendant made a conscious effort to create elements of dissimilarity between products); Cf. Otis Clapp & Son, Inc., 754 F.2d at 746 (the defendant’s ‘targeting’ of the plaintiff in its literature created exceptional case for attorney fees); Gorenstein Enterprises, Inc. v. Quality Care-USA, Inc., 874 F.2d 431, 435, 437 (7th Cir.1989) (upholding attorney fee award when the defendants were “holding the trademark hostage as a bargaining tactic” and litigated the suit in bad faith).