Mealey's (February 19, 2019, 4:55 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A California federal judge’s decision to award a patent assignee $600,000 in attorney fees it incurred in bringing an infringement action that ultimately settled was upheld Feb. 8 by the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (Drop Stop LLC v. Jian Qing Zhu, et al., No. 18-1533, Fed. Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 3923)....