Kenneth Horton Main provides contact information and introduces the topic of two recent US Supreme Court decisions regarding patent litigation. The Supreme Court ruled in Octane Fitness v. Icon Health & Fitness that district courts have more flexibility to determine if a patent case is "exceptional" and merits awarding attorney fees to the winning party. The previous Federal Circuit standard for determining an exceptional case was overly rigid. In Highmark v. Allcare Health Management Systems, the Supreme Court held that the determination of whether a case is exceptional is reviewed only for abuse of discretion, making it more difficult for exceptional case rulings to be overturned on appeal. These rulings are likely to result in more motions for attorneys