Mealey's (November 12, 2019, 1:57 PM EST) -- CHICAGO — In a Nov. 7 ruling, the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for the first time adopted and applied the U.S. Supreme Court’s standard for awarding attorney fees in patent cases to requests for fees under Section 1117(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1117(a) (LHO Chicago River LLC v. Joseph Perillo, et al., No. 19‐1848, 7th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 33463)....