{"id":144783,"date":"2026-02-25T12:09:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/25\/a-meritless-bullying-tactic-fed-judge-dismisses-fitch-evens-action-against-former-client\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T12:09:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:09:04","slug":"a-meritless-bullying-tactic-fed-judge-dismisses-fitch-evens-action-against-former-client","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/25\/a-meritless-bullying-tactic-fed-judge-dismisses-fitch-evens-action-against-former-client\/","title":{"rendered":"‘A Meritless Bullying Tactic’: Fed. Judge Dismisses Fitch Even’s Action Against Former Client"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fitch Even claimed it filed the declaratory action so the court could \u201cdeclare the rights and other legal relations under federal patent law, but the defendants alleged the firm was attempting to litigate the same issues currently pending in a separate suit filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County.<\/p>\n

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Fitch Even claimed it filed the declaratory action so the court could \u201cdeclare the rights and other legal relations under federal patent law, but the defendants alleged the firm was attempting to litigate the same issues currently pending in a separate suit filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County.<\/p>\n

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Fitch Even claimed it filed the declaratory action so the court could \u201cdeclare the rights and other legal relations under federal patent law, but the defendants alleged the firm was attempting to litigate the same issues currently pending in a separate suit filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fitch Even claimed it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":144784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/legal-news-gS6n97.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}