Parallax Group International, LLC v. Incstores LLC, No. 24-1798 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 20, 2026)

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Defendant-Appellant Incstores (Incstores) LLC ap- peals the United States District Court for the Central Dis- trict of California’s denial of Incstores’s motion for attorney’s fees. Parallax Grp. Int’l, LLC v. Incstores LLC , No. 8:16-CV-929-JVS-DFMX, 2023 WL 9417497 (C.D. Cal. Dec. 6, 2023) (Decision). Under 35 U.S.C. § 285, a district court has the discretion, in “exceptional cases,” to award reasonable attorney’s fees to a prevailing party in a patent litigation.