The National Licensing Association has not been actively enforcing patents in the United States while awaiting the outcome of its last remaining lawsuit. MONY Life Insurance Company of New York, which the NLA unsuccessfully sued for patent and trademark infringement, has been seeking to recover the money it spent on attorney’s fees to defend itself against the NLA’s claims. The judge has already ruled that MONY did not infringe either patents or trademarks when the company foreclosed on a Washington State orchard in 2001 and offered the orchard for sale. The NLA alleged that Scarlet Spur Red Delicious and Smoothee […]