Paid Search Engine Tools, LLC v. Google Canada Corporation, 2022 FC 519
Justice McDonald - 2022-04-11
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These Reasons deal with the costs and disbursements payable to the Defendants, Google, as a result of the Judgment and Reasons issued in 2021 FC 1435, where I allowed Google’s counterclaim and held that the asserted claims of the Plaintiff’s (PSET) patent were invalid and not infringed. For the reasons that follow, I order that Google’s fees shall be assessed in accordance with the upper range of Column of IV of Tariff B and that Google shall be reimbursed for the disbursements that are shown to be reasonable and necessary. ... The trial evidence demonstrated that PSET is neither an inexperienced nor an unsophisticated litigant. Accordingly, I do not accept that the access to justice rights of smaller patent holders is a factor that needs to be considered in setting the quantum of costs in this case.
Decision relates to:
- T-40-18 - PAID SEARCH ENGINE TOOLS, LLC v. GOOGLE CANADA CORPORATION ET AL
- A-84-22 - which is an appeal from this decision