In recent developments, Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc. (CREXi), a competitor to the real estate information firm CoStar, is urging the Ninth Circuit to reconsider and revive antitrust counterclaims related to CoStar’s original copyright suit.
As an overlay to the patent dispute, CREXi describes CoStar’s actions as part of a larger strategy to utilize litigation to essentially sue them “into submission.” This litigation strategy is the crux of CREXi’s argument to seek the revival of their antitrust counterclaims.
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