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Is the lawyer's fee borne by the defendant?
Legal analysis: In principle, the attorney fees of both the original defendant and the defendant shall be borne by the client himself. Legally speaking, litigants hire lawyers to make up for their legal deficiencies, and of course they have to bear the legal costs themselves. However, there are several special cases. If the plaintiff wins the case, the lawyer's fees shall be borne by the defendant: 1. Patent infringement case; 2. Trademark infringement cases; 3. Cases of copyright infringement; 4. Infringement cases of integrated circuit layout design; 5. Cases of revocation right; 6. Cases of unfair competition infringement.

Legal basis: According to Article 22 of the Supreme People's Court's Provisions on the Applicable Law in the Trial of Patent Disputes, if the obligee claims to have paid a reasonable fee to stop the infringement, the people's court may calculate compensation beyond the amount determined in Article 65 of the Patent Law. According to Article 63 of the Trademark Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), the amount of compensation for infringement of the exclusive right to use a trademark shall be determined according to the actual loss suffered by the obligee due to infringement; If the actual loss is difficult to determine, it can be determined according to the interests obtained by the infringer due to infringement; If it is difficult to determine the loss of the obligee or the interests of the infringer, it shall be reasonably determined by referring to the multiple of the trademark license fee. For malicious infringement of the exclusive right to use a trademark, if the circumstances are serious, the amount of compensation may be determined in accordance with the amount determined by the above method. The amount of compensation shall include the reasonable expenses paid by the obligee to stop the infringement. According to Article 54 of the Copyright Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), if copyright or copyright-related rights are infringed, the infringer shall compensate according to the actual loss of the obligee or the illegal income of the infringer; If the actual loss of the obligee or the illegal income of the infringer is difficult to calculate, compensation may be made with reference to the use fee. In case of intentional infringement of copyright or copyright-related rights, if the circumstances are serious, compensation may be paid at least one time but not more than five times the amount determined by the above method. If it is difficult to calculate the actual loss of the obligee, the illegal income of the infringer and the royalty, the people's court shall award compensation of more than 5 million yuan to 500 yuan according to the circumstances of the infringement. The amount of compensation shall also include the reasonable expenses paid by the obligee to stop the infringement. According to Article 30 of the Regulations on the Protection of Layout-design of Integrated Circuits, unless otherwise stipulated in this Regulation, if one of the following acts is carried out without the permission of the layout-design right holder, the actor must immediately stop the infringement and bear the liability for compensation: (1) Copying all or original parts of the protected layout-design; (2) importing, selling or otherwise providing a protected layout design, an integrated circuit containing the layout design or an article containing the integrated circuit for commercial purposes. The amount of compensation for infringement of the exclusive right of layout-design refers to the benefits obtained by the infringer or the losses suffered by the infringer, including the reasonable expenses paid by the infringer to stop the infringement. According to the provisions of Article 152 of the Civil Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), the right of revocation shall be extinguished under any of the following circumstances: (1) The party concerned fails to exercise the right of revocation within one year from the date of knowing or should have known the cause of revocation, and within 90 days from the date of knowing or should have known the cause of revocation; (2) The party concerned is coerced and fails to exercise the cancellation right within one year from the date when the coercion is lifted; (3) After the parties know the reasons for cancellation, or explicitly give up the cancellation right by their own actions. If the party concerned fails to exercise the right of cancellation within five years from the date of the civil juristic act, the right of cancellation shall be extinguished. According to the provisions of Article 20 of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), if an operator violates the provisions of Article 8 of this law, makes false or misleading commercial propaganda on his goods, or organizes false transactions to help other operators make false or misleading commercial propaganda, the supervision and inspection department shall order him to stop the illegal act and impose a fine of more than 200,000 yuan but less than 1 million yuan; If the circumstances are serious, a fine ranging from/kloc-0 to 2 million yuan may be imposed, and the business license may be revoked.